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May 2017

May 23, 2017
    I've just been reminded of this useful post, by Neal Rappleye:  
May 23, 2017
    Thanks to Neal Rappleye for calling attention to a new article by Joseph...
May 23, 2017
    We visited both the German military cemetery and the main American military cemetery...
May 22, 2017
    Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want...
May 22, 2017
    We traveled this morning to Pegasus Bridge, inland from Sword Beach, which was...
May 22, 2017
    Good advice, and an interesting book recommendation:     Posted from Carentan,...
May 22, 2017
    I occasionally encounter very mistaken, even misleading, claims about the Church's involvement or...
May 22, 2017
  We were just there, on the Israeli side at Qasr al-Yahud, a couple of...
May 22, 2017
    On Saturday, we drove into Bayeux, where we spent considerable time looking at...
May 21, 2017
    "Nevertheless, just as I believe that the Book of Scripture illumines the pathway...
May 21, 2017
      A poem appears in two languages on the wall of the World...
May 21, 2017
    A YouTube video of a March address by the remarkably prolific Dr. Matt...
May 21, 2017
    I mentioned yesterday that Claude Monet loved to paint the Cathedral of Rouen,...
May 20, 2017
    On our first full day in France, we drove from Paris to Normandy....
May 20, 2017
    On Thursday, while flying from Qatar to France on a very nice Qatar Airlines...
May 20, 2017
    Once more, for those who think that LDS Church leaders care only for...
May 20, 2017
    This is a puzzling phenomenon.  Some have even suggested, at least half seriously,...
May 20, 2017
        Being where I am right now, and having spent the day...
May 20, 2017
    I've been watching political developments in Turkey -- among the most fascinating places on...
May 20, 2017
    A new opera for the entertainment and preoccupation of certain critics of Mormonism, entitled...
May 20, 2017
      An interesting short piece by the indefatigable Robert Boylan, with a link...
May 19, 2017
      Posted from Carentan, Normandy, France    
May 19, 2017
    I very much wish that the level of biblical literacy among Latter-day Saints --...
May 19, 2017
    Matthew Bowen continues with his really interesting series of articles for Interpreter: A...
May 19, 2017
    He was a basically agnostic cynic, but her story really moved and impressed him:...
May 19, 2017
    A new half-hour-long podcast is accessible through the website of the Interpreter Foundation,...
May 19, 2017
    This is more important than you might think:     Despite the...
May 18, 2017
I certainly wish that I had called the column "Some alternatives to Christian ethics" instead...
May 18, 2017
    Some readers of this blog may have noticed that I wasn't a fan...
May 18, 2017
    An interesting report:     Posted from Paris, France    
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