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December 2024

December 19, 2024
  For me, one of the most important principles in writing about the religious beliefs...
December 17, 2024
  I love California.  I grew up there.  I earned my doctorate there.  I typically...
December 17, 2024
  I was delighted to learn this morning that The Hat has expanded beyond its...
December 15, 2024
  Even among those who love his writing -- and I am definitely among them...
December 14, 2024
  For the better part of the past week, several places in social media have...
December 13, 2024
  Last night, at the Islamic Center of Southern California, I participated in a dinner...
December 12, 2024
  Vital Signs 43/4 (2024), the current issue of the newsletter of the International Association...
December 11, 2024
  Between sixteen and thirty-five percent of all annual charitable gifts in the United States...
December 10, 2024
  I don't know the source of the photograph above, so I can neither give...
December 09, 2024
  Some notes about the astonishing turn of events in Syria: Russia is a big...
December 08, 2024
The news out of Syria is stunning.  The fall of Damascus and the collapse of...
December 07, 2024
  The Christmas season is a busy one.  Especially, perhaps, in the United States, where...
December 06, 2024
  Two new articles went up today (Friday) on the website of the Interpreter Foundation....
December 05, 2024
  In my opinion, Giving Machines definitely represent one of the most brilliant ideas that...
December 04, 2024
  My wife and I took our core film production and film distribution and film...
December 03, 2024
  Unfortunately, today's blog entry needs to be largely devoted to the proverbial notion that...
December 02, 2024
  Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:  Interpreter Radio Show — November...
December 01, 2024
  The following note went out to several Interpreter Foundation mailing lists yesterday: This coming...

November 2024

November 30, 2024
  We're just back from a showing of Home Alone with our granddaughter.  It was...
November 29, 2024
  A new article appeared this afternoon in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...
November 28, 2024
  I wish a Happy Thanksgiving to all of my fellow Americanos out there.  And...
November 27, 2024
  I published the Thanksgiving column immediately below in the 24 November 2011 issue of...
November 26, 2024
  I published the following column in the 14 November issue of the Deseret News:...
November 25, 2024
  I've long felt that American Thanksgiving tends to be a somewhat forlorn and relatively...
November 24, 2024
  Yesterday evening, we met friends for dinner at Maria's Mexican Grill in South Jordan...
November 23, 2024
  FAIR is a largely volunteer organization, and sometimes real life gets in the way...
November 22, 2024
For whatever it may be worth, today is the sixty-first anniversary of the assassination of...
November 21, 2024
  I liked this article in the Deseret News that was written by the invaluable...
November 20, 2024
  By the way, Six Days in August is still playing in four or five...
November 19, 2024
  My wife and I took Royal Skousen out to dinner last night; we had...
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