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August 2014

August 27, 2014
Terryl and Fiona Gives, The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections on the Quest for Faith, (Deseret, 2014)  
August 26, 2014
I'm teaching a new class at BYU this fall: History 485 "Mysticism and Esotericism."  I've...
August 26, 2014
This is the most famous and elegant of the representations of the primordial bull sacrifice by...
August 23, 2014
The Hamblin Peterson column from Deseret News on "Alexander the God."  
August 23, 2014
The Brass Sea (Brazen or Bronze Sea) (2 Kgs 25:13-16; 1 Chr 18:8; Jer 52:17-20; cf....
August 22, 2014
Larry Hurtado's interesting comments on the use of the term YHWH/Yahweh/Jehovah in the Greek OT...
August 15, 2014
Orthodox Rabbis often claim it has been hidden somewhere the Vatican.  They are wrong.   The...
August 14, 2014
For those who think I spend all of my time thinking of ways to diss...
August 13, 2014
Robert Boylan (my favorite Irishman--after the Lucky Charms guy) has a new LDS-oriented theological blog...
August 11, 2014
It angers me when my friend Dan is harassed and insulted by anti-Mormons.  It angers...
August 09, 2014
I just received this from Blair Hodges.  It is beyond bizarre! William Hamblin's recent blog...
August 09, 2014
Reports have reached me of a little incident at the FAIR conference.  Apparently Blair Hodges...
August 09, 2014
This week's Deseret News column by Dan Peterson and me is on Mary, the Mother...
August 06, 2014
I assume that all of my readers are familiar with FAIR (the Foundation for Apologetic...
August 05, 2014
Journalists are almost universally noted for their inability to understand the things they about which...
August 03, 2014
No one has ever, for obvious reasons, confused me with the Lord God Almighty.  (Though...
August 03, 2014
I assume that most of my readers know of the Interpreter Foundation, it's journal and...
August 02, 2014
I'm back from my "Grand Tour" in Rome.  What a GREAT trip.  Many photos!
August 02, 2014
With Dan Peterson.  Click here.  

July 2014

July 21, 2014
The claims of some liberal LDS that God might choose to reveal "inspired fiction" in...
July 16, 2014
After my experiences this week with Italian public transportation, I've decided to write an opera....
July 13, 2014
The default assumption of non-LDS is that the unique LDS scripture in the Pearl of...
July 12, 2014
An in depth and insightful analysis of the nature of scripture from David Larsen at...
July 11, 2014
Matt Roper has an insightful blog called "Ether's Cave."  (I like that name.  It speaks...
July 11, 2014
The recent Church statement on the "Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham" has...
July 11, 2014
Well, that all depends on what you mean by "scripture" and what you mean by...
July 09, 2014
Those who think that "violence never solves anything" have never studied history.  For good or...
July 08, 2014
This statement seems difficult to reconcile with claims of a fictional Book of Abraham.  

June 2014

June 30, 2014
Tomorrow I'm off to Rome for a month.  I'll have intermittent wifi access, and will...
June 30, 2014
Those who propose that our scriptures are best understood as "inspired fiction" almost inevitably frame...
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