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April 2015

April 26, 2015
    The other night, at the commencement of the Jewish sabbath, my wife and...
April 25, 2015
    We spent much of yesterday upon in the very northern reaches of modern...
April 25, 2015
    "O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us," wrote Robert Burns, "to see oursels as...
April 25, 2015
    This is -- for someone coming from my peculiar background, anyway -- really...
April 25, 2015
    There is still so very, very much that we don't know about pre-Columbian...
April 25, 2015
    I've thought highly of David (and Nancy) French for several years now, and...
April 24, 2015
    Obviously, I wasn't there.   I regret that.   But, thanks to Nathaniel...
April 24, 2015
    This week's article from the Interpreter Foundation:     Posted from Tiberias,...
April 23, 2015
    Maybe.   It's certainly a nice one, and an important one, historically and...
April 23, 2015
    On the flight over, my wife and I shared our row with an extremely...
April 23, 2015
    Today's "Defending the Faith" article in the Deseret News is now up:  ...
April 23, 2015
    I wrote here the other day about the sharp decline in European birthrates....
April 22, 2015
    Dang.   I had an invitation for a special tour of the Payson...
April 22, 2015
      It was a boring flight, which is always good.   I won't...
April 21, 2015
      Posted from New York City    
April 21, 2015
    I used to follow debates about the Shroud of Turin much more closely...
April 21, 2015
    Not at all a healthy thing -- and somewhat intellectually incoherent, to boot:...
April 21, 2015
    I finished Mary Eberstadt's The Loser Letters: A Comic Tale of Life, Death,...
April 21, 2015
    A Protestant voice demurs:     I might note, by the way,...
April 21, 2015
  And, no, it's not my heart:       There is still so...
April 20, 2015
    Matthew 14:34-36 Mark 6:53-56 John 6:22-25   (Another of the Sea of Galilee's...
April 20, 2015
    Gustav Mahler is said to have regarded musical composition as "an act of...
April 20, 2015
    This little story might help to give some impression, at least, of the...
April 20, 2015
    Matthew 14:22-33 Mark 6:45-52 John 6:16-21   1.   It seems fairly obvious...
April 20, 2015
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I...
April 20, 2015
    This should give some food for thought -- and not least to those...
April 20, 2015
    I don't follow her, really, but, from what I can tell, my fellow...
April 20, 2015
      Extremist Muslim "martyrs" commonly die while killing or attempting to kill...
April 20, 2015
    Matthew 14:13-21 Mark 6:32-44 Luke 9:10-17 John 6:1-15   Jesus' miraculous feeding of the...
April 20, 2015
    Those of you who've seen the recent Kenneth Branagh Disney film will, of...
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