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July 2020

July 24, 2020
    Nomadic life breeds hardiness, frugality, eagerness for material things, fortitude, and hospitality. Such...
July 23, 2020
    Interpreter Radio Show — July 19, 2020 The 19 July 2020 broadcast of...
July 23, 2020
    When the Jewish exiles returned from their Babylonian captivity and began to rebuild...
July 23, 2020
    Driving over to Colorado the other day, my wife and I were struck...
July 22, 2020
    The title of my forthcoming presentation for the 2020 FairMormon conference has now...
July 22, 2020
    For several weeks, I spent quite a while here on this blog calling...
July 22, 2020
    From the earliest times, the people of Arabia, though dominantly nomadic, have also...
July 22, 2020
    Two new items have appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:  ...
July 21, 2020
    I think that this report, created by a professor of biological sciences at...
July 21, 2020
    It was at Nahom, incidentally, that Lehi and his party abruptly turned due...
July 20, 2020
    Back in 2018, I shared the platform for a moderately small meeting at...
July 20, 2020
    An intriguing article, written by John S. Thompson, was posted today on the...
July 20, 2020
    Frankincense is a fragrant gum resin consisting of small white chunks and beads...
July 19, 2020
    We're familiar, of course, with Oliver Cowdery as one of the official Three...
July 19, 2020
    I share here for your Sabbath reflections a passage that I marked during...
July 19, 2020
    A rim of mountains runs along the western side of the penin­sula. These...
July 18, 2020
    The first question that comes up when we begin to discuss “the Arabs”...
July 18, 2020
    A new item on the website of the Interpreter Foundation by members of...
July 18, 2020
    You may have noticed that Istanbul's magnificent Hagia Sophia has been on my...
July 17, 2020
    Please watch and share these two new videos, which were kindly brought to...
July 17, 2020
    Some Jews were martyred, some hid in caves and deserts in order to...
July 17, 2020
    A new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...
July 16, 2020
    Sam LeFevre, a valued commenter on this blog, responding to a curiously hybrid...
July 16, 2020
    New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, from Hales Swift:   "Prayer...
July 16, 2020
    The latest installment of my bi-weekly Deseret News column appeared earlier today:  ...
July 16, 2020
    The Babylonian Talmud became, by a considerable distance, the more important of the...
July 15, 2020
    I've made no secret of the fact that I regard Richard Lloyd Anderson's...
July 15, 2020
    In case you missed this news, here's a brief write-up from the Interpreter...
July 15, 2020
    What really interested the earliest rabbis was the collection and organization of the...
July 14, 2020
    I continue with some notes from Jerry D. Grover, Jr., Geology of the...
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