Seven Seasons, Zero Photographs: The Skinwalker Ranch Problem ❧ ✦ ☙ Introduction: The Most Studied Place on Earth Somewhere in Utah’s Uinta Basin, on 512 acres of sagebrush, red sandstone, and irrigated pasture southeast of the town of Ballard, there may be more scientific instruments per acre than at any other privately owned cattle ranch…
WHEN BLIND EYES BEGIN TO SEE: An Exposition and Bible Study of Luke 18:31–43
The following is a summary of Zenjie’s sermon: When Blind Eyes Begin to See A Summary of a Sermon on Luke 18:31–43 Speaker: Zenjie Caneda ❦ ✦ ❦ Overview Filling in while both preaching pastors were away, Zenjie took up the closing two sections of Luke 18: Jesus’ third prediction of His death (vv. 31–34)…
Borrowed Light: C. S. Lewis, the Latter-day Saint Pulpit, and the Difference Between a Quotation and a Doctrine
The Thirteenth Apostle Who Never Was: C. S. Lewis at General Conference Introduction: A Borrowed Voice in the Conference Center This weekend, October 3 and 4, 2026, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convenes its 196th Semiannual General Conference. Tens of thousands fill the Conference Center on Temple Square, and millions more listen…
The Seed of the Church: From the Arena to the Creed – Four Centuries That Defined the Faith
A narrative synthesis of the Hillsdale College Online Course “Ancient Christianity,” Lectures 2–11, expanded and corroborated with primary sources from the Church Fathers and classical historians. ✦ ✦ ✦ Introduction: The Most Audacious Claim in History Imagine standing in the Roman Forum in the first century and announcing to the crowd that the Creator of…
Parked on the Platform: Ed Young’s Rolls-Royce, “Christ’s Playbook,” and the Gospel of the Showroom
Does it look like Madison Avenue? Testing a Megachurch Stunt Against Scripture Introduction: Two Ways to Enter a Sanctuary There are two ways to make an entrance into a house of worship. One is on a borrowed colt, exactly as the prophet foretold: “lowly, and riding upon an ass” (Zechariah 9:9). The other is behind…
Bad Mormon, Good Evidence: The Podcast Interview That Could Sink the LDS Church’s Lawsuit
How a church lawyer’s friendly podcast interview — and a marketplace crowded with the word “Mormon” — are complicating the LDS Church’s trademark case against John Dehlin ❦ ❦ ❦ On a friendly stage, before a friendly host, a lawyer for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tried to explain the difference between…
The Book of Revelation Study Guide
THE UNVEILING OF JESUS CHRIST A Chapter-by-Chapter Exposition of the Book of Revelation for Pastors, Students, and Serious Readers of Scripture “Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.” — Revelation 1:3…
The Silence Between the Stars: Joseph Smith, Extraterrestrial Life, and the Unsettled Cosmology of the Latter-day Saints
A Scholarly Look at Kolob, Embodiment, and the Latter-day Saint Universe — ✦ ✦ ✦ — Introduction: A Promise About the Moon In March 1892, readers of the Young Woman’s Journal, a magazine for Latter-day Saint young women in Utah, turned to a Sunday reading unlike any other in the issue. Oliver B. Huntington, an aging veteran of the…
The Book of Signs: 31 Undeniable Prophecies of the Apocalypse – A Summary
Image: A modern AI-brought-to-life version of “Christ’s Prophecy of the End of the World” by Frans Hogenberg, 1562. The original found on Wikimedia. A Chapter-by-Chapter Summary of the Book by Dr. David Jeremiah ❦ ◆ ❦ Introduction: Reading the Road Signs of History Every driver knows the difference between a billboard and a warning sign….
Hold Up His Hands: A Call to Pray for—and Stand Beside—the Man in Your Pulpit
“No Man Stood With Me”: Making Sure Your Pastor Never Has to Say It ❧ ✦ ☙ “No Man Stood With Me” The hall is cold, and the old man in chains stands alone. Rome has summoned the apostle Paul to answer for the gospel before an imperial tribunal, and the places where his friends…