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People who do not work across disciplines can sometimes be confused about various categories of evidence and how they are used to reconstru...

Lets consider some other subject areas that fit in a recent commentator's definition of pseudo-sciences. These are areas of study withou...

According to some: the complete lack of recognition for the subject in any and all universities, colleges or like institutions, . . . and...

As a follow-up on my post of yesterday , I saw this post by Christopher Rollston where he comes to the same conclusion about what the new i...

Back in January, I listed the various Hebrew inscriptions according to date and in a series of posts ( here , here , here , here , and her...

Recent, under-informed assertions about the Book of Mormon and archaeology prompt this discussion. Let's ask a simple question: Wha...

Elder Richard G. Scott in the April 2008 General Conference shared the following: Now, to the perpetrator who has shattered the life of...

In case you could not think of enough good reasons to learn Arabic, here are some more. Actually the decline in emphasis on foreign langu...

First there was Stephen Cranney noting how the Church's treatment of boys and girls was unequal because of the scouting organization. ...

This news report covers another instance of an individual faking data in a widely-publicized study designed to advance a particular narrati...

Mother's Day was yesterday, and although I was going to post this yesterday, I simply have not had time to get it written. Ancient lit...

Robert P. George delivered these remarks at the BYU Commencement yesterday. They are a good diagnosis of the situation facing religious ins...

Although I am tempted to cross-post this whole article, instead I will just post a link: http://ldsmag.com/five-lessons-about-religious-fr...

In his recent book on Catholic higher education, Christian Smith praises the mission statement of Notre Dame, where he now teaches. He notes...

The following counsel is older and most comes from a time when the "New Mormon History" was the intellectual fad of the day. The n...

I just learned (a day after the funeral) that William W. Hallo died last Friday. I took Sumerian and Old Assyrian from Professor Hallo whi...

I really liked President Monson's April 2015 First Presidency Message that appeared in the Ensign . Unfortunately, I do not have it at h...

The Unparallels In a previous post I noted some significant problems with one point of Paul Owen's latest attack on the Book of Mormon...

Paul Owen is a fairly nice guy. I know him. He is, nonetheless, an anti-Mormon. He has written books explicitly attacking Mormonism in gener...

In A.D. 751 An Lushan was the favorite of the Chinese Imperial Palace. The emperor's wife, Yang Guifei, adopted the shrewd and cunning g...