Archive Index - Sic et Non

January 22, 2023

An unpleasant reminder of home

The terrible mass shooting that occurred last night in Monterey Park, California, hit...

January 21, 2023

“I’m happy to say that dying was easy and pleasant”

While doing a little clean-up today -- my wife is coming back tonight...

January 20, 2023

“Proven quality and solidarity”

But, first, I call your attention to a couple of my typically mean-spirited...

January 19, 2023

“A Moslem fought an infidel one day”

These three pieces have gone up quite recently on the website of the...

January 18, 2023

An entry on some critics

I mentioned the other day that I had responded to an online article...

January 17, 2023

On an American university’s imposing one particular version of Islamic orthodoxy on its students and faculty

By now, you may perhaps have heard of this outrageous case from Hamline...

January 16, 2023

“Signature in the Cell”

When I was a young'un -- long, long ago, in a galaxy far...

January 15, 2023

Five Years On

Elder Russell M. Nelson was set apart as the seventeenth president of the...

January 14, 2023

Lightning Strikes

I'm halfway through a period of temporary bachelorhood: My wife is babysitting one...

January 13, 2023

“An Important New Study of Freemasonry and the Latter-day Saints”

A new article -- this one a review essay -- went up earlier...

January 12, 2023

“Written records of biblical King David discovered by researchers,” plus the “Drake Equation”

Scott Pierson has kindly called my attention to this article from today's Jerusalem...

January 11, 2023

“Answering New Atheism and Seeking a Sure Knowledge of God”

Up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "Conference Talks: Answering New...

January 10, 2023

Doing for Jews what has already been done to/for Latter-day Saints?

To the considerable irritation of at least a few extremely irritable critics, the...

January 09, 2023

“At that time I was no longer in my body.”

Many years ago, there was a period when my speaking engagements on behalf...

January 09, 2023

England, anybody?

With a group of friends (mostly neighbors and former neighbors), we are putting...

January 07, 2023

It Came from Outer Space, Maybe, or Perhaps from the Black Lagoon

I think that I'll post another set of draft notes inspired by (and,...

January 06, 2023

““We Don’t Know, So We Might as Well”: A Flimsy Philosophy for Same-Sex Sealings”

Today's new article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship...

January 05, 2023

Meditations and Reflections

I first read the Meditations of the Stoic Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD...

January 04, 2023

“I made a mistake in growing weary of the Gospel.”

New material on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conference Talks: "From...

January 03, 2023

Benedictus est

His death has received (to me) surprisingly little coverage, probably because he was...

January 02, 2023

Incomprehensibly Old, but Not Infinitely So

Gotcha. Its title notwithstanding, this is not an autobiographical essay. In the...

January 01, 2023

“Rejoice, the Lord is King!”

Today, 1 January 2023, is a Sunday -- and that fact seems wholly...

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