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Published: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:00 am MDT
Many years ago, while my wife and I were visiting what was still known as Leningrad in what was still known as the Soviet Union, it occurred to me that a fitting symbol of the previous century might be the conc...
Published: Thursday, May 17, 2012 12:00 am MDT
From time to time, some triumphant atheist or other challenges me with a list of supposed parallels between the biblical depiction of Jesus and the stories of other important religious figures. It's a very impr...
Published: Thursday, May 3, 2012 12:00 am MDT
We left off last week with the notion that the Book of Mormon was plagiarized from a manuscript written by Solomon Spalding, who had died in 1816. Sidney Rigdon, so the story goes, stole the work from Spalding'...
Published: Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:00 am MDT
As I see it, the single most persuasive secular argument for the authenticity of the founding events of the Restoration isn't actually a single argument or line of evidence at all. It's the fact that no counter...
Published: Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:00 am MDT
Years ago, my colleague and friend Louis Midgley drew my attention to an anecdote related by the eminent Protestant church historian Martin Marty.
Published: Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:00 am MDT
Humility seems to rank fairly low among the secular virtues, but it's at the core of what it means to be religious.
Published: Thursday, April 5, 2012 12:00 am MDT
One of the most memorable experiences of my mission in Switzerland came when the aunt of the Basel Ward mission leader died. Though not a member of the LDS Church, she had asked her nephew to speak at her funer...
Published: Thursday, March 29, 2012 12:00 am MDT
My only sibling — my half-brother, Kenneth Walters (we never thought of ourselves as half-brothers) — died unexpectedly last Friday morning, March 23, in Southern California.
Published: Thursday, March 8, 2012 12:00 am MST
One of the most interesting and provocative social analysts in America today is Arthur Brooks, currently president of the American Enterprise Institute.
Published: Thursday, March 1, 2012 12:00 am MST
I share with you a true story that my friend and former neighbor Ken McCarty shared with me. Ken has been an associate at Brigham Young University and in church callings, and I write this with permission from h...