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December 2015

December 23, 2015
    I'd like to take a pause from the frenzied "Smithmas" festivities that are...
December 23, 2015
    A fun little short video (less than two minutes) illustrating some shared vocabulary:...
December 23, 2015
    A wonderful, thought-provoking, Christmas-related video, under four minutes in length:    ...
December 23, 2015
    An interesting (and not too long) series of brief interviews with the man-on-the-street.  ...
December 23, 2015
      Here with my two grand dogs, I find my thoughts turning to...
December 22, 2015
    A helpful primer for those who've never seen the earlier films or whose...
December 22, 2015
    "Christmas celebrates part of divine plan" (2010)   "Christmas in the Holy Land...
December 22, 2015
    The Catholic philosopher and theologian Stephen Webb takes a sympathetic view of Mormon...
December 22, 2015
    A lot of uninformed accounts are out there, purporting to tell us the...
December 22, 2015
    Mark 16:14-18   Most of us will not see Christ in this life....
December 22, 2015
    A reporter who had tried to keep up with, and debunk, fake Internet...
December 22, 2015
    Luke 24:36-43 John 20:19-29 Compare Matthew 16:19; 18:18; Mark 16:14   In the...
December 22, 2015
    Several months ago, on a flight to Europe, my wife and I both...
December 22, 2015
    Luke 24:13-35 Compare Mark 16:12-13   This wonderful story occurs only in the...
December 22, 2015
    Driving south from Reagan National Airport, it's impossible to miss the number of...
December 22, 2015
    I'll bet that you'd forgotten some of them.  I had.    ...
December 22, 2015
    An arrangement for piano, by Mark Hayes, of Away in a Manger:  
December 22, 2015
    Yesterday, about to board a plane from Salt Lake City Reagan National Airport,...
December 22, 2015
    A nice Deseret News Christmas piece by Taylor Halverson:     Posted...
December 22, 2015
    Bruce Thornton, a scholar of classics and comparative literature associated with the Hoover...
December 21, 2015
      Posted from Richmond, Virginia    
December 21, 2015
     “I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. “The...
December 21, 2015
    Merry Christmas, and death to the capitalist exploiters of the proletariat!    ...
December 21, 2015
      Kindly brought to my attention by Jabra Ghneim   Posted from...
December 21, 2015
    And now, because I'm feeling rather nostalgic, not exactly for das Vaterland but...
December 21, 2015
    This is a fascinating -- if slightly longish -- article about a discussion...
December 21, 2015
    This short video, from last year's Christmas campaign of the Church of Jesus...
December 21, 2015
    David J. Larsen spoke on ancient and modern temple worship at the 2015...
December 21, 2015
    David French, for whom I have great respect and with whom I typically...
December 20, 2015
    Ben Spackman has put together some useful suggestions for students and teachers in...
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