After organizing and listing my original posts from my original blog “The Torch,” the blog that inspired this Substack “The Torch,” in this post I have organized and listed my posts thus far in this Substack “The Torch.” Because I have created more than 700 posts thus far in this Substack “The Torch,” by organizing and listing them in a single post, it is easy to find whatever titles pique your interest. Also, each of my other blogs is available at the click of a button (see here), and the rest of my work is available at the click of a button (see here).
I noted in a previous post that my Substack “The Torch” is organized into categories. For your convenience, these are the categories:
Burning Issues: a space for commentary and hot takes on current events, controversial topics, and so forth
Jerusalem’s Flame: a space for reflections on faith, religion, theology, and Mormonism
Athen’s Flame: a space for reflections on political philosophy and the history of political philosophy
The Hidden Flame: a space for reflections on mysteries, gnosticism, apocryphal texts, the Holy Grail, and so forth
Kindled Critique: a space for film reviews, book reviews, and so forth
Beauty’s Embers: a space for reflections on all that is good, true, and beautiful
Creative Sparks: a space for sharing my creative work and so forth
A Single Sparkle: a space for my study, research, and writing on Dante Alighieri and his works
Readers can search my posts in these several categories, but for your convenience, I have organized and listed my posts, mostly in chronological order, below:
The Brass Serpent and the Pandemic: Part 1 of An Essay on COVID and VAX Reckoning
The Egregious Response to the Pandemic: Part 2 of An Essay on COVID and VAX Reckoning
Jabbing and Following the Prophet: Part 3 of An Essay on COVID and VAX Reckoning
Will It Take an Earthquake... To Reconnect the American Citizenry with Reality?
Toward a Better Understanding: A New Approach to the Polygamy Debate
A Real Reckoning for Romney: A Response to McKay Coppins’ New Book
Cardio Miracle Dysfunction: The True Story of My Expulsion from a Company that I Worked So Hard to Promote
Isn’t It Obvious? My Response to the 2024 U.S.A. Presidential Election Results
More Reasons to Doubt Trump: An Introduction to the Work of Anonfamous
Not Peace, but a Sword: The Vigilant Voice (February 4, 2025)
Manly, Moral, Regulated Liberty: The Vigilant Voice (February 7, 2025)
Why Would Any U.S. Citizen Pay Taxes? The Vigilant Voice (February 8, 2025)
Can Therapy Honor Faith? The Vigilant Voice (February 10, 2025)
What Is the Founders’ Constitution? The Vigilant Voice (February 11, 2025)
Is there a Constitutional Crisis? The Vigilant Voice (February 12, 2025)
Is Elon Musk an Illuminati Leader? The Vigilant Voice (February 13, 2025)
What Is Your Favorite SNL Skit? The Vigilant Voice (February 14, 2025)
Is Joseph Smith’s Polygamy a Problem? The Vigilant Voice (February 15, 2025)
Are the Kennedys Illuminati? The Vigilant Voice (February 17, 2025)
A Second Civil War in the U.S.A.? The Vigilant Voice (February 19, 2025)
Protect the Innocent: The Vigilant Voice (February 21, 2025)
Why Are They Surprised? The Vigilant Voice (February 22, 2025)
Sick and Tired of Corruption: The Vigilant Voice (February 25, 2025)
What on Earth Was that Trump-Gaza Video? The Vigilant Voice (February 27, 2025)
The Lord’s Wrath Cannot Sleep Forever: The Vigilant Voice (March 3, 2025)
Thank God that Kamala Isn’t President: The Vigilant Voice (March 7, 2025)
Have We already Forgotten? The Vigilant Voice (March 8, 2025)
Removing the Scales from Our Eyes: The Vigilant Voice (March 11, 2025)
Enjoy a Good Vance Meme: The Vigilant Voice (March 12, 2025)
Get Back to the Declaration: The Vigilant Voice (March 13, 2025)
Benzodiazepines Are Bad: The Vigilant Voice (March 14, 2025)
Are All Mormons Like Ruby Franke? The Vigilant Voice (March 17, 2025)
For Clarity about the Courts: The Vigilant Voice (March 21, 2025)
Tactics of the Bipartisan Cabal: The Vigilant Voice (March 22, 2025)
Did the Driver Shoot JFK? The Vigilant Voice (March 24, 2025)
Has the Lord’s Church Lost Its Way? The Vigilant Voice (March 26, 2025)
How Do We Discern between Real and Fake Conspiracies? The Vigilant Voice (March 27, 2024)
One Nation Under Blackmail: The Vigilant Voice (March 28, 2025)
Make Motherhood Great Again: The Vigilant Voice (March 31, 2025)
A Restoration of Common Sense: The Vigilant Voice (April 1, 2025)
Kurt Cobain Was Murdered: The Vigilant Voice (April 5, 2025)
Persist through These Dark Times: The Vigilant Voice (April 7, 2025)
No More Assassinations Please: The Vigilant Voice (April 8, 2025)
Rebels, Dissidents, and Survivors: The Vigilant Voice (April 9, 2025)
Resources for Civilizational Renewal: The Vigilant Voice (April 11, 2025)
The Origins of and the Solution to the COVIDIAN Conspiracy: The Vigilant Voice (April 12, 2025)
Moderate Apocalypticism and Liberal Education: The Vigilant Voice (April 14, 2025)
Holy Tuesday and Trump’s Easter Message: The Vigilant Voice (April 15, 2025)
Combatting Corruption in Higher Education: The Vigilant Voice (April 24, 2025)
Contra Conspiracy Denialism: The Vigilant Voice (April 30, 2025)
Three Excellent Articles: The Vigilant Voice (Thursday, May 1st, 2025)
Millions Harmed and Killed by the Jabs: The Vigilant Voice (May 3, 2025)
Hamblin’s Apology for Raping His Daughter: The Vigilant Voice (May 7, 2025)
Resist Weaponized Niceness: The Vigilant Voice (Tuesday, May 27, 2025)
Was William F. Buckley, Jr. Great? The Vigilant Voice (May 28, 2025)
Twain’s Praise for Joan of Arc: The Vigilant Voice (May 30, 2025)
Mount Etna Erupts: The Vigilant Voice (Monday, June 2, 2025)
The Trump-Musk Debacle, Jonathan Rauch’s Erroneous Reasoning, and the Dark Truth About Antidepressants, SSRIs, and the Psychiatrists Lying for Profit: The Vigilant Voice (June 7, 2025)
The Real Solution to the Modern Man Problem: The Vigilant Voice (June 9, 2025)
Netanyahu’s Wars and My Dad’s New Podcast: The Vigilant Voice, Friday, June 27, 2025
The Happiness of America and All Mankind: The Vigilant Voice, June 30th, 2025
Donald Trump Is in the Epstein Files: The Vigilant Voice (Tuesday, July 15, 2025)
Nothing Much to See Here? The Vigilant Voice (Wednesday, July 16, 2025)
Trump Continues to Dodge: The Vigilant Voice (July 28, 2025)
Well-Trained Natural Brains Needed: The Vigilant Voice (July 29, 2025)
Charlie Kirk and Snake Eyes: The Vigilant Voice, October 1, 2025
Get Yourself a Conspiracy Theorist Friend: How to Help Bring to Light All the Hidden Things of Darkness
What Does He Say about Our Society? On Nick Fuentes and Fuenteism
The Old Testament in 2026: A Prelude to our Study of the Old Testament (and the Pearl of Great Price) in 2026
The Most Correct of Any Book: The Book of Mormon: My Chapter by Chapter Commentary
Search These Commandments: The Doctrine and Covenants: My Section by Section Commentary
The Joseph Smith Foundation and L. Hannah Stoddard: More Torch-Lighters for The Torch
Mormon Book Reviews: Where an Evangelical Encounters the Restoration
An Indispensible Safeguard: A Brief Response to Terryl Givens
Restore Discernment: A Comment on the Faith Matters Gathering
The Doctrine and Covenants in 2025: An Invitation to Study with Me
Partake of His Goodness: An Invitation to Read the Book of Mormon
Out of the Wilderness: Resources for Studying the Doctrine and Covenants
Four Score and Seven Years Ago (Eight Score Years Ago): A Few Reflections on Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address”
Fathom the Good: An Introduction to the World’s Greatest Homeschool Curriculum
A Video Presentation on Fathom the Good: Another Introduction to the Fathom the Good Curriculum
Seneca Drives US: A Few More Reflections on Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life
What Is Political Philosophy? An Introduction to Athen’s Flame
Graced by Nature’s Grace: Studying Leo Strauss’ What Is Political Philosophy?
What Is Tyranny? Studying Strauss’ “Restatement on Xenophon’s Hiero”
Is there No Escape from the Universal Tyrant? Preparing to Study Xenophon’s Hiero
Hiero’s Lament: An Introduction to a Cursory Reading of Xenophon’s Hiero
Learning from Strauss: On Approaches to Political Philosophy and the Works of Leo Strauss
Ears to Hear and Legs to Climb: On Leo Strauss’ Classic Essay “What is Liberal Education?”
A Revolution in Religious Freedom: From the Declaration to the First Amendment: The First Amendment Conference at UVU
Just Say No to Tyranny: More Reflections on Xenophon’s Hiero
Have You Ever Heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Not Morons.: Approaching Aristotle Again
A Literary Mirror for Modern Americans: Three Introductions to Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
A Course on Political Philosophy: On Reason, Revelation, and Politics (Poli 362) at Brigham Young University
Joseph Smith: Descendant of Jesus Christ? On Jesus Christ’s Possible Polygamy and the Dynasty of the Holy Grail
The Woman Fled into the Wilderness: Reading Dynasty of the Holy Grail: Mormonism’s Sacred Bloodline
Establish as a Plant of the Eternal Seed: An Introduction to the Annotated Edition of The Book of Enoch
Dialing in on Indiana Jones: What do Pascal, C.S. Lewis, and my friend Rex Teach Us about Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny?
Don’t Be a Confused Barbie (or Ken): The Truth about Barbie the Movie
Six Days in August: A New Film about the Successors to the Prophet Joseph Smith
The Most Important Movie of the Summer: Tim Ballard’s Sound of Freedom
A Faith Challenging Painting: Notes on Conversations about Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot
Timon and Coriolanus: A Few Notes on the Utah Shakespeare Festival
Escape from Germany: Did We Metaphorically Make the Nazi Salute?
Take Out the Tablet of Lapis Lazuli: An Invitation to Read the Epic of Gilgamesh
A Prophet’s Heart: An Introduction to President Russell M. Nelson’s New Book “Heart of the Matter”
Gossip in Petersburg: Beginning Part 2 of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
What Is Varenka’s Secret? Reflections on Part Two of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
The Common Weal and Forgiveness: Brief Reflections on Parts 3 and 4 of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
Relaunching Mormon Cinema: On Richard Dutcher’s Classic: God’s Army
The Russian Polis: Brief Reflections on Part 5 of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
Levin’s Character: A Note on Part 6 of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
She Had Truth: Reflections on Book 7 of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
The Dear Christ Enters In: On Richard Dutcher’s God’s Army II: States of Grace
You Can View My Body on the Rails of Yasenki: Final Reflections on Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
Goethe is Now a “Mormon”: Reflections Based on My Reading of Goethe’s Faust
Thought that Floats on a Different Blood: Reflections on C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy (Part 1. Out of the Silent Planet)
A Bruised Heel and a Crushed Head: Reflections on C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy (Part 2. Perelandra)
A Higher Life that Streams from a Mighty Spirit: More Reflections Based on My Reading of Goethe’s Faust
As in the Days when Nimrod Built a Tower: Reflections on C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy (Part 3. That Hideous Strength)
A Bolder Note than This Might Swell: Reading Edgar Allan Poe in the Provo Great Books Club
Christ’s Life Is the Meaning: An Introduction to Andrew Klavan’s “The Truth and Beauty”
Come, Lord Jesus: An Invitation to Read Understanding the Book of Revelation
A Literary Mirror for Modern Americans: A Basic Introduction to Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
A Literary Mirror for Modern Americans (Part 2): A More Extensive Introduction to Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
A Literary Mirror for Modern Americans (Part 3): An Even More Extensive Introduction to Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
A Literary Mirror for Modern Americans: Three Introductions to Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
A New Post for The Good Report: Introducing the Music of Lucy Thomas
My Grandpa’s Last Boat Ride: A Meditation on the Resurrection and Eternal Life
What Is “The Torch”? A Comment on the Purpose of “The Torch” and How to Contribute
“The Torch” Still Burns: Things to Expect from and Ways to Contribute to “The Torch”
Lighting the Torch: Narrative of the Early Life of John C. Hancock: My Autobiography, Chapter by Chapter
A Note to My Gentle Readers: Help Fan the Flames of The Torch
My 2025 Christmas Letter: A Repository of Christmas Memories
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