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September 2015

September 23, 2015
      Yesterday, I posted an item -- part of a larger series of...
September 23, 2015
    It's interesting to see this discussion of the history and nature of religious...
September 23, 2015
      So please whisper, and turn your sound system down.   Posted...
September 23, 2015
      You want impressive?  Consider this:     Thanks to Charles Steinman...
September 23, 2015
    Solemn reflections today, as we visited Carthage Jail, due east of Nauvoo, and...
September 23, 2015
    I had to find just the right blade of grass to stand on,...
September 22, 2015
    It was the palpable genuineness of Joseph Smith’s accounts of his experiences that...
September 22, 2015
      Well . . .   There seem to me some real...
September 22, 2015
    Granted, Alaska then wasn't like Alaska now.  But, still, it was scarcely tropical:...
September 22, 2015
      I don't believe that many who knew of him were surprised, and...
September 22, 2015
    “The building up of Zion is a cause that has interested the people...
September 21, 2015
    This trip represents at least the fourth time that I've driven by Cahokia,...
September 21, 2015
    Heber C. Kimball told a story of Joseph’s being reduced to tears at...
September 21, 2015
    This is a potentially very important phenomenon, and our policy makers and strategists...
September 21, 2015
    "This is the loveliest place and the best people under the heavens; little...
September 21, 2015
    Joseph Smith’s sincerity appears in the incidental glimpses of him that we obtain...
September 21, 2015
    It's science!     Posted from Liberty, Missouri    
September 20, 2015
    Ben Carson is a very good man, by all accounts.  This, however, was...
September 20, 2015
    Renee Contreras De Loach kindly called the item above to my notice.  (I...
September 20, 2015
    Liberty Jail [was], for a time, a center of instruction. The eyes of...
September 20, 2015
    Every time I come here, I find myself thinking about the remarkable way...
September 20, 2015
      Just in case you missed it:     Nobody, I expect,...
September 20, 2015
      Posted from Nauvoo, Illinois    
September 19, 2015
    Incarcerated by the Missouri militia at Independence on 4 November 1838, having escaped...
September 19, 2015
    This book was indirectly brought to my attention by Jabra Ghneim, for which...
September 19, 2015
    Seriously.     Posted from Nauvoo, Illinois    
September 19, 2015
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes...
September 19, 2015
    Today's installment of the biweekly Hamblin/Peterson Deseret News column hath appeared:  
September 19, 2015
    For much of his lifetime, newspaper reports insinuated that Joseph Smith was duping...
September 18, 2015
        Here's a curious bit of . . . well, I guess...
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