If you haven’t encountered the legendary Jack Chick — who died recently — you’ve missed one of life’s great treats.  Here’s an introductory article about him:   http://www.vox.com/culture/2016/11/8/13426962/jack-chick-alt-right-fundamentalism-tracts-catholics-trump   You can read a few representative pages of his classic and informative comic book The Enchanter — it’s about us Mormons! — by clicking on the Read Sample button here:   http://www.chick.com/catalog/comics/0118.asp     Read more

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/mars-water-dry-desert-extraterrestrial-life-a7411156.html     Read more

    This is a very good article:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865666974/What-Mother-Jones-doesn7t-get-about-Mormon-women.html?pg=all     Read more

    The latest book from the Interpreter Foundation is now available for purchase:   The Temple: Ancient and Restored   May I suggest that, if you buy it through Amazon, you use AmazonSmile?  Buying through AmazonSmile — whether books or whatever else your purchase might include — costs you not a single cent, shekel, peso, centime, or pfennig more, but Amazon will send 0.5% of the purchase price to your designated charity.  (The Interpreter Foundation is one of those charities... Read more

    I’ve had a number of Trump supporters write to and about me, declaring that Muslims in America are “irrational” to be nervous about the results of the American presidential election and even that they’re just playing the “victim card,” maybe even faking their worries.   Some have even blamed me for stirring up anxieties among Muslims, and have accused me of spreading “leftist propaganda.”  (I’m reminded just a bit, candidly, of people back in the 1950s who claimed that... Read more

    I publish a column every Thursday in Salt Lake City’s daily Deseret News under the series title “Defending the Faith.”  It’s always on subjects directly germane to Mormonism, and particularly to the truth claims of Mormonism.   Every other Saturday, though, my friend and former BYU colleague Bill Hamblin and I publish a bi-weekly column that’s quite different in focus.  It very seldom deals with Mormonism — almost never — but treats religions and religion-related matters worldwide.   The... Read more

    Omarosa Manigault, who ended up as the Trump campaign’s director of African-American outreach, explains the duty of those who ever dared to criticize or oppose the Leader:   http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/trump-supporter-omarosa-manigault-explains-bow-president-trump-43469541   She says that the Trump team has been keeping a list of those who failed to support Mr. Trump’s presidential bid, and that “Mr. Trump has a long memory”:   http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/09/politics/omarosa-list-donald-trump/     Read more

      “Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not.  God knows.”   “I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.”   “I thought I saw the face of God.”   With friends, my wife and I attended a performance of Händel’s complete Messiah tonight.  It was put on by the BYU Baroque Ensemble, the BYU Concert Choir, the BYU Singers, and the English... Read more

    Here’s an interesting and very readable article (with a slightly inflammatory title!) that some will enjoy:   21 Reasons It Doesn’t Matter if The Church is True     Read more

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