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The following thought was written by my ninth cousin twice removed when he visited Heidelberg: I went often to look at the collection of c...

In the announcement in the Deseret News for the new volume of the Joseph Smith Papers, there are a number of nice pictures. The first one i...

The following was spotted just outside the Church at St. Wendel during the Easter Market:

The Barna group has their 2017 report on American engagement with the Bible. There are a few interesting things to come out of the report: ...

My Doktorvater William Kelly Simpson recently passed away. (You can find his obituary in the New York Times .) I remember a number of his ki...

Last week, after my meetings in the Vatican, I had the chance to wander around St. Peter's Square. In the middle of that plaza stands an...

From Things As They Really Are : Satan is very apt at using any momentum he has in order to make it look as though he has already prevaile...

From Wherefore Ye Must Press Forward : Being steadfast includes relentless resistance to such vices as pride; it also includes resisting t...

From Wherefore Ye Must Press Forward : There is another clue to maintaining our steadfastness: We should judge the warnings given to us by...

In a just released book review , Emanuel Pfoh, laments that twenty years after he thought that the idea of a historical bible had been so ...

From Deposition of a Disciple : The individual interface with the institution of the Church constantly gives us a chance to be separated f...

From That My Family Should Partake : Those who are grossly selfish are also the same people who, cavalierly, use ends to justify means. Fo...

Here is an interesting argument by Peter Augustine Lawler about niceness. And here is the cliff notes version. While I do not necessarily ...

Hugh Nibley once said, and I am quoting from memory: "Twenty sparrows do not make an eagle." He followed that up by noting that if...

Most of the time comparing the original and a translation is fairly straightforward. Occasionally one finds places where one wonders where...

In the nineteenth century the college entrance exam required the prospective student to submit a translation of a selected passage from Xeno...

I just received news that Elder Bruce Porter died. This is very sad. I only met him once when we had lunch in the Skyroom at his request be...

Book of Mormon Central is a great organization with some very talented people who love the Book of Mormon. This article gives it some well...

This year's top news story at BYU was one about my colleague Lincoln Blumell, and his work publishing an ancient Egyptian epitaph . It ...

Four-hundred forty-four years ago today, on 23 December 1572, in the main market square, in front of the Heiligegeistkirche in Heidelberg, a...