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August 2020

August 21, 2020
    It's Friday, so another new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of...
August 20, 2020
    The official magazine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for...
August 20, 2020
    "I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with...
August 20, 2020
    This Muslim emphasis on the words and style of the Arabic Qur'an was...
August 19, 2020
    Last night (Tuesday, 18 August 2020), I gave a little class or fireside...
August 19, 2020
    I've just been looking at an early-2015 blog entry from Kirk Magleby entitled "Top...
August 19, 2020
    Two quotations from Modern Physics and Ancient Faith, by Stephen M. Barr, a cosmologist...
August 19, 2020
    Muslims believe that the Qur'an as they have it today is an actual...
August 18, 2020
    This heads-up appeared a short while ago on the website of the Interpreter...
August 18, 2020
    Scientism, in at least some of its manifestations, is the close cousin or...
August 18, 2020
    These were astonishing conquests, rapid and seemingly without end, and it was not...
August 17, 2020
    If not entirely surprising, still quite important to note:   "Study of more...
August 17, 2020
    These new items went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation...
August 17, 2020
    Abu Bakr was the first man to bear the title of caliph, to...
August 16, 2020
    There are many who claim that science and religious belief are entirely incompatible....
August 16, 2020
    I share four sabbath-appropriate quotations, suitable as follow-ups to my previous post in...
August 16, 2020
      In AD 632:   Muhammad was dead. Now came the question of...
August 15, 2020
    Such sources as the writings of Josephus (ca. AD 37-100), the Mishnah, and...
August 15, 2020
    I share a few thematically related passages from William E. Carroll, Creation and Science:...
August 15, 2020
    So, the impatient reader is asking by now, just what are we to...
August 14, 2020
      Sigh.  A few folks have gone wild at my post about renouncing...
August 14, 2020
    A new article appeared today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation.  It...
August 14, 2020
    Many years ago, during a meeting at Church headquarters with two members of...
August 14, 2020
    In an entry that I posted here a few days ago, I commented...
August 13, 2020
    The latest installment of my bi-weekly Deseret News column went up earlier today...
August 13, 2020
    Sir John Polkinghorne, now in his ninetieth year, is both a Knight of the...
August 13, 2020
    Evaluations of Muhammad have varied wildly. Skeptical Western writers for years regarded him...
August 12, 2020
    A few days ago, I recorded a lecture for BYU Education Week 2020...
August 12, 2020
    New, via the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   "Producing Ancient Scripture —...
August 12, 2020
    The uniform silence out there surrounding the question of what I think about...
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