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October 2020

October 07, 2020
    This document is cited at Edward L. Hart, Mormon in Motion: The Life...
October 07, 2020
    Saladin established a dynasty in Egypt and Syria, but it never quite measured...
October 06, 2020
    I'll share a passage here from Jeff Wynn and Louise Wynn, Everyone is a...
October 06, 2020
    Three new items went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:...
October 05, 2020
    Overall, it can be said that the principal characteristic of the Middle Peri­ods...
October 05, 2020
    My manuscript now begins to treat what I call, following Marshall G. S....
October 05, 2020
    A couple of new items are up on the website of the Interpreter...
October 05, 2020
    One of the many unattractive traits of our current debased public discourse is...
October 04, 2020
    Yet another passage from Alister McGrath's "Twilight of Atheism" talk as it appears,...
October 04, 2020
    I share with you here another item culled from Susan Easton Black and...
October 04, 2020
    I have tried, by means of this rather lengthy digression into word origins...
October 03, 2020
    Up today, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Book of Moses...
October 03, 2020
    But we return to our investigation of words that the West has borrowed...
October 03, 2020
    Back on 21 November 2006, the astoundingly productive Anglo-Irish theologian Alister McGrath delivered...
October 02, 2020
      I've often had occasion here and elsewhere to mention the prolific Alister...
October 02, 2020
    Changing gears, it is worth noting that many terms connected with warfare have...
October 02, 2020
    I've been contacted by two or three people who are incensed at my...
October 02, 2020
    Two important reviews appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...
October 01, 2020
    We've just entered the month of October -- the month of Halloween, during...
October 01, 2020
    Finally, I offer a grab bag of words on various subjects, to illustrate...
October 01, 2020
    Back on 8 September 2020, I posted a brief blog entry ("Can the...

September 2020

September 30, 2020
    My wife and I have just returned from a private showing of the...
September 30, 2020
    Arabic influence is clearly visible in the arts and crafts of the West....
September 29, 2020
    No.  No.  Darn it, I just can't get tonight's ugly, toxic fiasco out...
September 29, 2020
      Sigh.  Against my resolution and my better judgment, I watched the presidential...
September 29, 2020
    Here are four quotations about science, representing quite distinct points of view, that...
September 28, 2020
    Did Arabic literature have any impact upon the literature of the West? Few...
September 28, 2020
    I really like this summation by the Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli,  which...
September 28, 2020
    Please mark your calendars!   The Temple on Mount Zion: The Fifth Interpreter...
September 28, 2020
    Few readers are surprised, probably, to learn that the name Sahara is Arabic...
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