Archive Index - Sic et Non

August 30, 2024

A Preliminary Response on Brigham Young’s Financial Dealings

One or two folks have shown up on my blog attacking Brigham Young as...

August 30, 2024

Two Plays about Women Being Treated Badly

Somewhat spontaneously -- we didn't make the decision until last night -- we drove...

August 28, 2024

Why this next film?

Mark Goodman, James Jordan, Russ Richins, and I had already been talking, while we...

August 27, 2024

“Ask God Whether It is True”

Professor John Turner, a member of the faculty at Virginia's George Mason University...

August 26, 2024

Necessary Notes on “Six Days in August”

Correcting the falsehoods regularly purveyed by my Malevolent Stalker and his handful of zealous...

August 25, 2024

Setting the Record Straight, Though Without Much Real Hope

In our priesthood meeting today, we considered the address given by Elder Ulisses Soares...

August 24, 2024

Demand It in Your Area!

I'm pleased to report that a full video recording of the lectures given on...

August 23, 2024

“But for Wales!”

It's Friday, so -- once again, as happens with tiresome regularity, new materials have...

August 22, 2024

Moms for Liberty, BYU, and Banning Books

I notice that there are some (including the lamentable Salt Lake Tribune -- which,...

August 22, 2024

A report from a long and busy Wednesday

I was really busy yesterday -- that's why I didn't post a blog entry...

August 20, 2024

“Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”

Retired federal judge Paul Warner is the "star" of the latest video short...

August 19, 2024

“He thought it no sin”

The moribund and never-changing website of the Interpreter Foundation continues to post new items....

August 18, 2024

It’s so big!

Retired federal judge Paul Warner is the featured interview in this latest very...

August 17, 2024

The Temple and the Principle of “Semper Reformanda”

A second article went up yesterday in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...

August 16, 2024

Should we back down on building temples?

First, two stories that can be taken as pointing in two quite different directions:...

August 16, 2024

On a Prophet and an Antichrist

Here's the link to a newly published article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day...

August 14, 2024

Of Temples and Apostolic Keys

Richard N. W. Lambert, an active devotee of Latter-day Saint history who is...

August 13, 2024

Was science possible before the Protestant Reformation?

Some new slides from a pair of lectures have just gone up on the...

August 12, 2024

“The Most Profound Experience”

Yet another very short video feature has just been posted by the Interpreter...

August 11, 2024

A gift for the man who really needs nothing

We are rapidly closing in on the hundredth anniversary of President Russell M. Nelson's...

August 10, 2024

Prevention and Possible Cure

A new Interpreter Foundation video short has once again gone up: "Martin Harris...

August 10, 2024

CES Letters

Newly published in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: "Nurture and...

August 08, 2024

Brigham Young, An Eyewitness of the World to Come?

A new video short has been posted by the Interpreter Foundation. It is...

August 07, 2024

Unexpectedly fair journalism and a wavering skeptic

I enjoyed this piece in the Deseret News, which was written by Jacob Hess:...

August 06, 2024

Brother Brigham on the Theater (and on Film?)

Gerrit Dirkmaat is featured in a new super-short video from the Interpreter Foundation...

August 05, 2024

Are reason and faith diametrically opposed?

While in California a couple of weeks ago, I picked up a copy of...

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