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December 2015

December 25, 2015
    Some critics of Mormonism have triumphantly announced that they've identified Joseph Smith's source for...
December 25, 2015
    Still inspired by something that Elder David A. Bednar said roughly two years...
December 25, 2015
    Three serious but very different (non-Mormon) responses to Christmas:   "The Only Christmas...
December 25, 2015
    On 8 August 2014, Robert F. Smith delivered an interesting paper at the...
December 25, 2015
    Reflecting on the Christmas story and its legacy:     Posted from...
December 25, 2015
    Even on Christmas Day -- if it falls on a Friday -- Interpreter: A...
December 25, 2015
    A little item -- don't expect too much -- from the non-LDS historian...
December 25, 2015
    A nice LDS contribution to Christmas in southern California:     And,...
December 25, 2015
    For my final installment of "Music of Christmas" for 2015, I offer two...
December 24, 2015
    Dear friends:   Another year is coming to a close, and it’s closing...
December 24, 2015
    An exquisitely beautiful choral version of today's Christmas hymn:     This...
December 24, 2015
      Posted from Richmond, Virginia    
December 24, 2015
    Responding to my request for a Cuban Christmas song, my Havana-born daughter-in-law suggests...
December 24, 2015
    A good, fun article (excerpted from a book) by a good writer with...
December 24, 2015
      I have travelled many moonless nights Cold and weary, with a...
December 24, 2015
    John 21:1-25 Compare Matthew 16:28; 26:30-35; Mark 9:1; 14:26-31; Luke 9:27; 22:31-34, 39;...
December 24, 2015
    I can't recall whether I shared this link before, but this article is...
December 24, 2015
    These are actually fairly interesting, and one of them would serve well in...
December 24, 2015
    My Christmas column for this year:     Posted from Richmond, Virginia...
December 24, 2015
    Matthew 28:16-20 Mark 16:9-20 Luke 24:44-53 John 20:30-31   1.   The gospel...
December 24, 2015
    Of course we're going to do more Händel this Christmas!    ...
December 23, 2015
    The conservative writer Jonah Goldberg issues an unusually early endorsement:    ...
December 23, 2015
    We went to see Episode VII of the Star Wars saga tonight.  ...
December 23, 2015
    Something wonderfully beautiful:     The lyrics vary.  (The song was originally...
December 23, 2015
      Enjoy!   Posted from Richmond, Virginia    
December 23, 2015
    "One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals.  People...
December 23, 2015
    It's the time of the year for making retrospective lists.  So here's one:...
December 23, 2015
    1 Corinthians 15:3-8   It's often forgotten that there's another early Old World...
December 23, 2015
    I'm very excited about the approaching launch of Book of Mormon Central:  ...
December 23, 2015
    This is the column that I published last year just prior to the...
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