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April 2016

April 05, 2016
    An interesting find -- suggesting that human grudges and rivalries weren't, alas, so...
April 05, 2016
    If you're philosophically inclined, or suspect that you might be; if you yearn...
April 05, 2016
    If Mr. Donald Trump wins today's Wisconsin primary, it will be very difficult...
April 04, 2016
    Just a bit more than a month away:      
April 04, 2016
    Not just pop culture trivia here.  Some really surprising stuff, from one of...
April 04, 2016
    A very quick and trivial comment about today's reading, Mosiah 22:   Some Latter-day...
April 04, 2016
    My wonderful habanera daughter-in-law calls my attention to this positive story from a place...
April 04, 2016
    The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper...
April 04, 2016
    I'll have more details fairly soon, I think, but it seems that I'll...
April 04, 2016
     
April 04, 2016
    She served on the National Security Council under Democratic President Jimmy Carter and, during...
April 04, 2016
    I've received a number of (sometimes very foul) email, Facebook, and other challenges...
April 04, 2016
    I suppose it's probably too late to get on this year's tour, but,...
April 04, 2016
    If you lie awake nights worrying about extraterrestrial invaders, there's hope!    ...
April 04, 2016
    An interesting suggestion from Jeff Lindsay:     It merits consideration.  ...
April 04, 2016
    Princeton's Robbie George, one of the leading conservative thinkers in America (and, incidentally,...
April 04, 2016
     The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven...
April 03, 2016
    Appearances notwithstanding, this isn't an anti-Trump article.  (Some may have noticed that I'm...
April 03, 2016
    A useful call to watch our biases:     Confirmation bias, false...
April 03, 2016
    It becomes quite clear in today's reading, Mosiah 21, that the Lord will not...
April 03, 2016
  If you didn't have the chance to hear Elder Patrick Kearon's remarkable address about...
April 03, 2016
      "Freely ye have received," says the Savior at Matthew 10:8, "freely...
April 03, 2016
    "Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God...
April 03, 2016
      On the Sabbath, it seems to me appropriate simply to take a moment,...
April 03, 2016
    Even in archaeologically well-plowed areas such as Italy, where written sources abound in...
April 03, 2016
    I'm late with this -- Easter's already past -- but John Gee makes...
April 02, 2016
    "Mythicism" -- the notion not only that Jesus wasn't divine but that he...
April 02, 2016
    The remarkable story that begins in Mosiah 20, the chapter on which I'm commenting...
April 02, 2016
    This is fantastic:     This is the kind of thing that...
April 02, 2016
    "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes...
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