“There has been in fact a restoration of the gospel.”

Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by John in Revelation. The fact of the great apostasy is attested by both sacred and secular writ, and history bears witness that it became universal. We proclaim this fact of history not as an attack on any church. We do not assume any position of “holier than thou” or “wiser than thou,” but we announce this historic fact of the apostasy as a vindication of the claim that there has been in fact a restoration of the gospel.

Hugh B. Brown

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More than a few of you, I suspect, will find this interesting and perhaps even moving:

“More Washington Post editorial-page news: Stunning Reagan letter about faith and eternity”

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You can add this one not merely to your file about how journalists repeatedly miss the boat on religion but also to your file on the harm that religion does to the world:

“Reporters miss great religion angle on Southwest Airlines story about a Down Syndrome girl”

In fact, while I’m at it, here’s another one for your files:

“The crimes stunned Knoxville: But faith brought Channon Christian’s father back to life”

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While I’m on this note:  I was delighted when I began to see previews for Unbroken: Path to Redemption.  I haven’t seen it yet, and I hope, though I have worries, that it will be well enough done to be worthy of the story it’s trying to tell.

I’m among those who believe that Laura Hillenbrand’s book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption tells one of the greatest, most remarkable, most inspiring true stories that I’ve ever read.

So I was pleased when the 2014 film Unbroken was announced.  But I worried.  I worried because it would be a Hollywood film, and because Hollywood doesn’t always do religion well.  And, sure enough, the film lived more or less down to my expectations, pretty much omitting Louis Zamperini’s remarkable, life-saving spiritual redemption, with which the book concludes.

So, from what I understand, Unbroken: Path to Redemption essentially begins where the 2014 Hollywood film leaves off.

Louis Zamperini’s is an amazing story even without its final “religious” chapter.  But with that last part, it becomes a miraculous one.

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I was pleased to read this:

“Reviewing the Review: Vol. 7 Iss. 1 (1995)”

It seems that I’ve been able to fool at least one reader into failing to see me for the monster that I am.

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On Saturday last, the unbelievably prolific Irish Latter-day Saint Robert Boylan marked the three thousandth entry on his very useful blog, Scriptural Mormonism.  And it’s a useful one, with some very good links:

“Happy 3,000th Post!”