I love reading classic literature in the original spelling.  A few years ago one of my best friends gave me a facsimile edition of the 1611 edition of the King James translation of the Bible.  Knowing that a great deal of Tyndale’s translation ended...

A petard is a small bomb used to blow up gates or walls of an enemy’s fortifications.  William Shakespeare coined the phrase “Hoist with his own petard,” in his play Hamlet: For ’tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar; and ‘t...

I’ve realized that the volume of content here on Sixteen Small Stones has been in stead decline for some time.  As I’ve thought about the reasons, I’ve decided that my posts have become much too narrowly focused, and so I have been writing only when I...

Back in October of 2009, Daniel Bartholomew and I announced our ScriptureLog project, an open source plugin that turns Wordpress into a collaborative scripture study platform.  At that time only we only had The Book of Mormon available. Then in...