I’m really pleased to see interreligious tolerance and religious liberty emerging — as they manifestly have over the past decade or more — as major themes in the public messages of leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Since the mid-twentieth century, scholarly studies of the literary craftsmanship of biblical texts have revealed considerable insights into the intended purposes of the authors of these scriptural narratives.

Links to new articles of interest.

Mira Fox asks a good question: “Mormonism and Judaism are dominating television. Is that good for representation?: ‘Under the Banner of Heaven,’ ‘Unorthodox’ and numerous other shows focused on minority religions have premiered recently. But their portrayals aren’t always flattering.”

Writing is one of the greatest inventions or discoveries or gifts in the history of humanity. With just a few simple symbols — twenty-six in English — a virtual infinity of thoughts can be expressed, and not only expressed but conveyed across time and space.

The Latter-day Saints who settled southern Alberta had come here because they had been sent by the Church. They didn’t come for land or wealth, but because they were faithful and obedient.

I spoke tonight in Cardston in a fireside that was sponsored by two Cardston stakes on the topic "a crisis of faith. I focused on the three sets of witnesses to the Book of Mormon, and took questions for 30 minutes after. Thus, I hope I addressed what the two stake presidents wanted me to address.

I first called attention to Brian Stubbs’s claim in an article in the Deseret News back in 2017, in which I also provided links to two favorable reviews written by Latter-day Saint scholars who also happen to be superbly trained and highly reputable academic specialists on Amerindian languages.

I had misunderstood. I had been expecting to speak in a stake center in Lethbridge. Instead, I spoke from behind a tree-stump lectern out under the trees and the open sky. Unable to use my prepared slides, I ad libbed a very different talk than I had planned.And I liked it.

Two new articles appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint

Brigham Young said, "We have more friends behind the vail than on this side, and they will hail us more joyfully than you were ever welcomed by your parents and friends in this world; and you will rejoice more when you meet them than you ever rejoiced to see a friend in this life."

Out of all of the thousands of people at Disneyland that day...