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    I am, both for personal family reasons and on political-historical grounds, deeply interested...

    David French reports and  comments upon an interesting and, frankly, worrisome new study:...

    His ability to use flamboyance and outrageous remarks in order to gain free...

    “I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want...

    http://www.dailywire.com/news/7004/chelsea-handler-i-should-be-applauded-killing-two-amanda-prestigiacomo?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=062316-news&utm_campaign=benshapiro   Posted from Amsterdam, The Netherlands    

    I simply want to point out a chiasm in today's reading, Alma 41 --...

    An excellent article by Peter Harrison, who, unlike many who pronounce confidently on...

      I've had the privilege of spending time with Dr. Hassan Mneimneh...

    I'm still  not sure how this happened:   http://www.ldsliving.com/Steven-Spielberg-Praises-LDS-YouTube-Family-They-Are-Famous-In-Our-Home/s/82509?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=email   Posted from Brockwood...

    “I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated...

    The news out of Istanbul is horrific.  It was meant to be so....

    There are few chapters of scripture that are more comforting to believers than...

    He's running against one of the weakest, least charismatic, most vulnerable Democratic candidates...

    An outside perspective on the Church's efforts to promote temporal human welfare:  ...

    Some of the more sophisticated critics of the Book of Mormon have occasionally...

    Some pointers from the Church, as introduced by Elder Von Keetch of the...

    Just think of all the glorious things to see out there!  

    I bought a book on English place names during a prior trip to England...

    A very perceptive piece by Damon Linker about the recent referendum in the...

    Thanks to Kyle Pratt for bringing this very good photo essay to my attention:...

      I've recently had several people ask me what I might recommend to...

    One little point about today's reading, Alma 39:   I'm struck by the name...

    It's not uncommon for anti-Mormons to acknowledge that Joseph and Hyrum Smith shouldn't...

    This new article in the New Era, the Church's magazine for young people,...

    John Ruskin was the foremost art critic of Victorian England, as well as...

    There's no salvific value in his death, of course -- although it does...

    Although a few Latter-day Saints signed on to Trumpism early (which I find...

    A thoughtful piece by the important contemporary American Muslim thinker and leader Hamza...

    The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered...

      Nearly ten years ago, I think, I was over in California...