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November 2019

November 20, 2019
    I published this column on Thanksgiving Day 2014 in the Deseret News:  ...
November 20, 2019
    A passage from Surprised by Meaning: Science, Faith, and How We Make Sense of Things (Louisville:...
November 20, 2019
    I spent a significant portion of the forenoon in a small meeting with...
November 19, 2019
    First, here are a couple of new items on the website of the...
November 19, 2019
    Here are some provocative thoughts from Ian Hutchinson, who is a professor of Nuclear Science...
November 19, 2019
    "Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that the U.S. now rejects a...
November 18, 2019
    I published the Thanksgiving column below in November 2012 in the Deseret News:...
November 18, 2019
    This is the first part of my two-part 2019 Thanksgiving column:   "The...
November 18, 2019
    I was struck by Theodore Dalrymple's review of Jérôme Fourquet's L'archipel française: naissance...
November 18, 2019
    The fact that many highly successful scientists are also people of faith doesn't,...
November 17, 2019
    I continue here with a folkloric account, recorded in the eighth century AD, of...
November 17, 2019
    I published this column in the Deseret News for Thanksgiving 2013:   It’s...
November 16, 2019
    From Ma‘mar ibn Rashid, The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muhammad, translated by...
November 16, 2019
    Is it true, as some devotees of scientism who like to denigrate religious...
November 16, 2019
    If you haven't watched this yet, please take a couple of minutes to...
November 16, 2019
    The 10 November 2019 edition of the Interpreter Radio Show featured Terry Hutchinson, John...
November 15, 2019
    Here's a passage from the chapter of our principal textbook that I discussed...
November 15, 2019
    This article of mine appeared in the print edition of the Deseret News...
November 15, 2019
    I have some bad news and some good news.  First, the bad:  ...
November 14, 2019
    My wife and I are just back from the Brigham Young University campus,...
November 14, 2019
    "Did you miss seeing Mercury transit the sun? Don’t worry, it’ll happen again...
November 14, 2019
    Here's a pretty succinct paragraph from W. Montgomery Watt -- Scottish historian, orientalist, Anglican...
November 13, 2019
    This is really quite astonishing.  Mind-boggling, in fact:   "There’s Growing Evidence That...
November 13, 2019
    People write to me from time to time insisting that Islam isn't actually...
November 13, 2019
    For some reason, my little post on "Running with the golden plates" has...
November 13, 2019
    Having grown up in southern California; having attended high school across the street...
November 12, 2019
    We're just back from a strong performance of the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie...
November 12, 2019
    If I'm not mistaken, we were repeatedly reassured during the ultimate successful campaign...
November 11, 2019
    I published this article, on "Reconsidering the emotions of God" in the 30...
November 11, 2019
    It's just a hunch, but I'm guessing that, when most Americans think of...
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