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August 2020

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...
August 12, 2020
    By the year 632, Muhammad had subdued all of the Arabian penin­sula. The...
August 11, 2020
    Gemli wonders why anyone cares what people from the 17th century thought about...
August 11, 2020
    All truth, it is said, passes through three stages:  First, it is ridiculed....
August 11, 2020
    For all that it criticizes the unbelievers of Arabia, though, the Qur'an does...
August 10, 2020
    A small sampling of additional passages that I marked during my reading of...
August 10, 2020
    I wrote the little mini-essay below in response to a request connected with...
August 10, 2020
    Nevertheless, Muhammad's transformation from prophet to prophet-statesman had profound consequences for the nature...
August 09, 2020
    I pre-recorded my remarks to the 2020 FairMormon conference.  On Friday afternoon, when...
August 09, 2020
    Among the very most valuable of thinkers on science and religion -- unlike...
August 09, 2020
    In 622, the Prophet and his followers emigrated from Mecca to Yathrib. This...
August 08, 2020
    It's always weirdly fascinating to see how how I'm currently being attacked on...
August 08, 2020
    Reacting dismissively (of course) to my recent post here under the title of...
August 08, 2020
    Muhammad's Reception among the Arabs In these early days of his prophetic ministry...
August 07, 2020
    Here is a passage that struck me when I read Geraint F. Lewis...
August 07, 2020
    Today marks the 420th consecutive Friday on which we've published at least one...
August 07, 2020
    Another common theme beginning in the earliest chapters of the Qur'an is a...
August 06, 2020
    I'm pleased to announce the publication of yet another new book by the...
August 06, 2020
    Here is a lengthy passage that I marked in Douglas Groothuis, Christian Apologetics: A...
August 06, 2020
    For this belief [in a physical resurrection] and others, the doubters made fun...
August 05, 2020
    Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon Lesson 32 “Preserved by His Marvelous Power” Alma 53-63...
August 05, 2020
    It's time, yet again, to share some of the COVID-19-related links that I've...
August 05, 2020
    Muslims and Western scholars agree upon a division of the suras or chapters...
August 04, 2020
    First, here's a fun bit of science news:  "This is the first picture...
August 04, 2020
    The 2020 FairMormon conference begins on Wednesday, 5 August 2020 -- as I...
August 04, 2020
    Muhammad in Mecca Within a few years of his birth at Mecca in...
August 03, 2020
    Up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, by Ugo A. Perego...
August 03, 2020
    Raymond Barfield, who holds both an M.D. and a doctorate in philosophy from...
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