A nice little essay on 1 Nephi 8:   Mormon joy, Lehi’s dream, and the love of God   Posted from Richmond, Virginia     Read more

    Today being Friday, the Interpreter Foundation has once again published a new article in its flagship publication, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:   Seers and Stones: The Translation of the Book of Mormon as Divine Visions of an Old-Time Seer   Posted from Richmond, Virginia     Read more

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/an-evangelical-pastor-on-reaching-the-religiously-unaffiliated_us_58bd8c8be4b05cf0f4021625   We live in an increasingly disconnected and secular world, and we need to improve our methods of dealing with it and of sharing the Gospel in it.   I’ve long thought that there might be much for Latter-day Saints to learn from Timothy Keller’s success in New York City.  I’ve read one of his books and a few other things that he’s written, and hope to read more.  I hope that a few others are looking, too.... Read more

    Here’s one instruction to Muhammad from the Qur’an (16:82), followed by my translation:   فَإِن تَوَلَّوْا فَإِنَّمَا عَلَيْكَ الْبَلَاغُ الْمُبِينُ   “And if they turn away, your responsibility is only to have clearly conveyed the message.”     Read more

    This item will provoke some discussion, I expect:   http://www.churchistrue.com/blog/why-are-people-leaving-the-mormon-church/   Here are four quick reactions of my own:   1)   I’m not eager to toss people from the Church for regarding the Book of Mormon as ahistorical.  I don’t seek to drive them out.  But I also strongly disagree with that view of the Book of Mormon, and, because I believe it to be false (and somewhat incoherent), I don’t believe that the Church should ever welcome it as... Read more

      Available at no charge on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, a roughly thirty-minute presentation by Professor Steven Peck that may well draw some spirited response:   Steven L. Peck on “Why Evolution and LDS Thought are Fully Compatible: Overcoming our Suspicions of Science”     Read more

    “A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”  Confucius     Read more

    Good news for those of you who’ve been losing sleep over this crisis.  The impasse has been resolved.  A compromise solution has been found:   http://www.11alive.com/news/local/sandy-springs/mormon-temple-mercedes-benz-come-to-agreement-for-road-name-change/416445343     Read more

    A fascinating half-hour that’s available to you at no charge on the Interpreter Foundation website:   Jani Radebaugh on “The Outer Solar System: A Window to the Creative Breadth of Divinity”     Read more

    My weekly Deseret News column has shown up yet again:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865675181/Can-the-scriptural-God-be-called-unchanging.html     Read more