Critics, Gatekeepers, etc.
In my previous post, I mentioned my interview with Mormon Book Reviews, which has now been posted here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcKnMTARdiw During the interview, […]
Reforesting Cumorah while de-correlating Cumorah
Last Friday, November 11, 2022, a group of missionaries helped sow seeds for various tree species on the Hill Cumorah in New […]
More on the Joseph Smith Papers and the Interpreter
I finally took the time to write another response to the Interpreter reviews of my books A Man that Can Translate and […]
The Friend magazine – October and November 2022
The Friend magazine continues the de-correlation of the Urim and Thummim, but also features Lebanon, so it’s a mixed bag. I was […]
Tax issues in Canada and Australia
This topic has been in the news. I offered some thoughts on the Mormon Book Reviews podcast, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAOPlpvt9mQ For a detailed […]
Interfaith vs Intrafaith dialog
Interfaith dialog continues to make progress. But we don’t see the same progress among leading LDS intellectual groups, particularly the M2C/SITH citation […]
Interfaith fireside in Lake Oswego, Oregon
Last Sunday (Nov 6, 2022) a wonderful interfaith fireside titled “Building Bridges” took place here in Oregon in the Lake Oswego stake […]
Misunderstandings which have gone abroad
Some years ago I attended a session on early Church history at BYU Education Week. During hsi presentation on promoting the SITH […]
What is "manifestly absurd?"
In his book Mormon’s Codex, John Sorenson promoted M2C. Popular LDS scholar Terryl Givens wrote the foreword for Mormon’s Codex, claiming the book […]
Universities and multiple working hypotheses
If our LDS intellectuals would embrace the ideas set out by Ben Sasse in this excerpt, we wouldn’t have a dogmatic citation […]