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    Fascinating analysis of recent survey data about religion in America:    ...

    In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other...

    A nice little piece about someone who has contributed significantly to our understanding...

    Today's weekly column for the Deseret News:     Happy Thanksgiving to...

    Here's column that Bill Hamblin and I published jointly in the Deseret News...

    Nicol Sorenson-Legakis brought this seasonally-appropriate little article to my attention:   http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/11/23/456656055/gratitude-is-good-for-the-soul-and-it-helps-the-heart-too?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2049  ...

    This is a book that I look forward to seeing:   https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-missing-martyrs-9780199766871?cc=us&lang=en#  ...

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is deeply involved in humanitarian...

    Nathaniel Givens has written a very important and well-thought-out essay here:  

      Posted from Marbella, Spain    

    If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to...

        First they came for the Socialists, and I did...

    Here's a Deseret News column that I published on Thanksgiving Day last year,...

    Michael De Groote has kindly brought this intriguing article to my notice:  ...

    I know a pair of relatively young Muslim parents from Egypt who studied at...

    I like a stroll on the beach as much as anybody, and we've...

    The Church issues a statement on the issue:   http://www.ldsliving.com/Church-Responds-to-Speculation-About-Shorter-Sunday-Block/s/80640?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=email   Posted from...

    This is a chance for members of the Church to join in proclaiming...

    Here's a column that I published in the Deseret News on Thanksgiving 2013:...

    A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant...

    It was Jabra Ghneim, I believe, who called this item to my attention:...

    Thanks to Cody Quirk for calling my attention to this item:  

      You may think the answer obvious.   And understandably so.   But...

    The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse...

        Here's the text of a column that I published in the...

    Important reflections from one of the premier social, legal, and political thinkers in...

    A brief little vehicle for reflection on a Sabbath day:   http://www.ldsliving.com/Mormon-Channel-Creates-Stunning-Inspiring-Video-Nearer-My-God-to-Thee/s/80603?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=email   Posted...

    This is mere grandstanding silliness:     From the Latter-day Saint point...

    The outpouring of grief in Paris has been moving.  Among the memorials has...

    We're past Halloween, of course, but this piece ("The Pumpkin") by the American Quaker...