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December 2015

December 28, 2015
    It's a traditional time of year for lists.  So here's one:  
December 28, 2015
    The eminent Austrian-American sociologist of religion Peter Berger takes an interesting look at...
December 28, 2015
    It has been insightfully said -- by me, and (I believe) by somebody...
December 28, 2015
    My friend and colleague Ralph Hancock has established a Facebook group that some...
December 27, 2015
    There is so very much that could be commented on in this chapter, and...
December 27, 2015
    A two-year-old Deseret News Christmas column of mine that now seems quite apropos...
December 27, 2015
    "For Calvin, the creation reflects its Creator at every point. Image after images...
December 27, 2015
    Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments...
December 27, 2015
    On 8 August 2014, Sharon Eubank, the director of LDS Charities, delivered one...
December 27, 2015
    Who knew?     Of course, you would never have learned this...
December 27, 2015
    A new item has been posted on the blog of the Interpreter Foundation:...
December 27, 2015
    It seems that the effort was pretty successful:     I'm looking...
December 27, 2015
    Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think...
December 27, 2015
    Cultures merge, meld, and adapt in endlessly fascinating ways.  Here are the beginnings...
December 27, 2015
  Note:  Henceforth, as requested by some for ease of searching, each of these Book...
December 26, 2015
    The battle against stupidity seems hopeless, sometimes:     It's tempting to...
December 26, 2015
    St. Nicholas of Myra, the prototype for St. Nicholas > Santa Claus, was...
December 26, 2015
    This is distressing:     If I were in that part of...
December 26, 2015
    In a world more and more given to multiculturalism and intercultural tolerance, ISIS...
December 26, 2015
    Today, I offer the second installment of my project to read the Book...
December 26, 2015
    Nearly a week ago, I posted a little item entitled "A Fight for...
December 26, 2015
    The biweekly Hamblin/Peterson column in the Deseret News has appeared, on a topic...
December 25, 2015
    Father Dwight Longenecker, a (married -- see his bio) Catholic priest, provides some...
December 25, 2015
    Scientists in Norway have found a 1500-year-old Viking settlement beneath the site of...
December 25, 2015
    A nice report on a joint Jewish-Muslim activity:     I like...
December 25, 2015
    Some critics of Mormonism have triumphantly announced that they've identified Joseph Smith's source for...
December 25, 2015
    Still inspired by something that Elder David A. Bednar said roughly two years...
December 25, 2015
    Three serious but very different (non-Mormon) responses to Christmas:   "The Only Christmas...
December 25, 2015
    On 8 August 2014, Robert F. Smith delivered an interesting paper at the...
December 25, 2015
    Reflecting on the Christmas story and its legacy:     Posted from...
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