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May 2015

May 31, 2015
    Wittenberg is a quiet, quaint little town -- and especially so on Sundays...
May 31, 2015
    "Elder L. Tom Perry -- An uncommon life of service and enthusiasm"  ...
May 31, 2015
    The idea is popular in certain very small circles within the Church of...
May 31, 2015
    A vocal number of angry secularist ex-Mormons like to complain online about humanitarian...
May 31, 2015
    Some scattered quotations from the playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956):   Sometimes it's more...
May 30, 2015
    I'm so, so sad at this news.  (I wrote about Elder Perry yesterday,...
May 30, 2015
    I'm going to leave that to my students.  Let them worry about it:...
May 30, 2015
    I often marvel at the bizarre internet behavior of certain apostate critics of...
May 30, 2015
    This has become a recurrent theme of members of the Council of the...
May 30, 2015
    The latest installment of the semi-weekly Hamblin/Peterson Deseret News column is now up,...
May 30, 2015
    Not surprising.   Challenging, of course, for those of us who think it...
May 30, 2015
    For an interesting and by no means atypical case, see here:  
May 30, 2015
    My, my, my.  Applications for this quotation (in talks on morality, in responses...
May 29, 2015
    It's public knowledge now that Elder L. Tom Perry of the Council of...
May 29, 2015
    I've never participated in one of these, nor even attended one.  But it...
May 29, 2015
    There's a great deal in this article that strikes me as absolutely true...
May 29, 2015
    It's not, I have to candidly admit, at the top of my priority...
May 29, 2015
    Did you notice that it's Friday today?   If you didn't, the appearance...
May 29, 2015
    Somebody has gone about town putting highly literate graffiti on the stones of...
May 29, 2015
    I learned yesterday that Berliners refer to the Bundeskanzleramt, the office of the...
May 28, 2015
    We spent some of today simply riding around Berlin on a bus, having a...
May 28, 2015
    "My own suspicion," wrote the British geneticist and evolutionary biologist J. B. S....
May 28, 2015
    "Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."  (Johann Wolfgang von...
May 28, 2015
    An interesting interview on National Public Radio:     Posted from Berlin,...
May 28, 2015
    What lesson should we learn from the fact that a record number of...
May 28, 2015
    This week's Thursday column for the Deseret News is now up:  
May 28, 2015
      However compassionate you may feel -- and your compassion does you great...
May 28, 2015
    A nice post from Neal Rappleye, though I expect that it won't do...
May 28, 2015
    This is an absolutely wonderful project, and an extraordinarily useful one for anybody,...
May 28, 2015
    My friend and former Maxwell Institute colleague Dr. John Gee, on a recent...
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