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February 2020

February 17, 2020
    I'm using portions of Munther A. Younes, Tales from Kalila wa Dimna: An...
February 16, 2020
    I published the column below in the Provo Daily Herald around 29 April...
February 16, 2020
    We and our visiting friends attended church this morning and then had lunch...
February 16, 2020
    I'm on the road, and I think that I neglected to call attention...
February 15, 2020
      I've always wanted to visit Sedona, but somehow, prior to today, I...
February 15, 2020
    I share a few more notes here from a significant article that a...
February 15, 2020
    Yesterday, I cited an account, gathered by Russell Blong, of a catastrophic volcanic...
February 14, 2020
    I first met Bart Kowallis when we were freshmen living in Hinckley Hall...
February 14, 2020
    On the flight from Salt Lake City to Phoenix last night, I began...
February 14, 2020
    I wrote this column for the Provo Daily Herald in October 1998:  ...
February 14, 2020
    I published this column in late April of 2001 in the Provo Daily...
February 13, 2020
    I published the little item below in the Provo Daily Herald way back...
February 13, 2020
    Here are a trio of passages that I've extracted from Huston Smith, Beyond...
February 12, 2020
    Bill Hamblin and I published the column below back in the early 2000s....
February 12, 2020
    Quite a number of years ago, my late friend Bill Hamblin and I...
February 12, 2020
    I've been asked by a reader to substantiate my lack of admiration for...
February 11, 2020
    We're just back from a performance of the Jeff Hamilton Trio in the Concert...
February 11, 2020
    "UV Light On Airplanes Could Prevent Spread Of Coronavirus And Other Infectious Diseases"...
February 11, 2020
    Every once in a while, I think it appropriate to remind Latter-day Saints...
February 10, 2020
    One argument that has recently been raised against Senator Mitt Romney's vote to...
February 10, 2020
    A new piece has been posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:...
February 10, 2020
      I continue in the spirit of another very recent blog entry:  ...
February 09, 2020
    The once-famous poem "Thanatopsis" (roughly, "a reflection on death," from the Greek thanatos ("death")...
February 09, 2020
    I continue with thoughts that are more or less in the vein of...
February 09, 2020
    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is often accused by its...
February 08, 2020
    From a recent article by the superb conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg:   I...
February 08, 2020
    Here's a remarkable little essay by the Dutch computer scientist and philosopher Bernardo...
February 08, 2020
    I continue to share passages that I marked while reading a book written...
February 07, 2020
    Of course, nobody really expected graciousness from President Trump:   "Trump Hits Romney...
February 07, 2020
    Another new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...
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