Zombie geography at BYU
Some ideas just won’t die. They’re zombies. They don’t know they’re dead, and they are mere shells of living beings, but they […]
If ye are not one
One oft-quoted scripture on the topic of consensus is this: “I say unto you, be one; and if ye are not one […]
Sharing posts
I’ve been asked how to share my posts on social media. I had forgotten about my twitter account, so it was a […]
Book of Mormon Translation
I get a lot of questions about how Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon. I have a section on that topic […]
the first question to ask
If you’re interested in Book of Mormon geography, the first question to ask is this: Where is Cumorah? The answer, of course, […]
Brother Scott’s Book of Mormon Witness Presentation
Yesterday a friend gave me a cutout from the newspaper: You might want to attend, or not. You might want to tell […]
"From a hill in Manchester Township"
Even when the Joseph Smith Papers editors quote Letter VII, they won’t identify the hill in New York as Cumorah. The reason, […]
The CES letter
I’ve had several requests to address the CES letter. If you’re not familiar with that, it’s a letter written in 2013 by […]
Why LDS scholars still try to discredit Letter VII
Because the only alternative hypothesis to “Letter VII is speculation” is “I have been wrong about everything,” we can expect LDS scholars […]
The crumbling of one fundamental assumption
The astronomer Halton Arp made a useful observation when he wrote, “It is interesting how the crumbling of one fundamental assumption can […]