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February 2019

February 20, 2019
    Matthew 5:17-20 Compare Mark 13:31; Luke 16:16-17   There are those, particularly among...
February 20, 2019
    (6 February 2019):  "BYU researchers find new target for pancreatic cancer treatment"  ...
February 20, 2019
    I try not to eavesdrop.  I really do.  But sometimes it's almost impossible...
February 20, 2019
    Here's an article that I published in the Deseret News way back on...
February 19, 2019
    Matthew 4:24; 5:1-12 Compare Mark 3:7-13; Luke 6:17-23   I have a very...
February 19, 2019
    I doubt that there's any room left in your bulging Christopher Hitchens Memorial...
February 19, 2019
    Something to watch for tonight (Tuesday night):   "Supermoon, 2019's biggest and brightest,...
February 19, 2019
    Plainly, comparative religions courses should be more widely taught.  Otherwise, bigots will continue...
February 18, 2019
    Mark 3:7-12 Compare Matthew 4:24-25; 12:15-16; Luke 6:17-19   The accounts of healings...
February 18, 2019
    "Is the Book of Mormon Like Any Other Nineteenth Century Book?"   ***...
February 18, 2019
    I was saddened just now to learn that one of my teachers in...
February 18, 2019
    We're just back from the Metro Richmond Zoo, a remarkably good small private...
February 17, 2019
    I've been asked to draw up two very brief summary passages describing, respectively,...
February 17, 2019
    Matthew 12:1-8 Mark 2:23-28 Luke 6:1-5   Reading these verses, I'm reminded of...
February 17, 2019
    On the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   "Come, Follow Me New Testament...
February 17, 2019
    Additional notes from Dallas Willard and Brandon Rickabaugh, “Intentionality contra Physicalism: On the Mind’s Independence from...
February 16, 2019
    I'm happy -- to put it mildly -- that the Supreme Court of...
February 16, 2019
    Matthew 9:9-13 Mark 2:13-17 Luke 5:27-32   This account, of the calling of...
February 16, 2019
    For years, I strongly disliked air travel.  Now, though, I rather like it....
February 16, 2019
    I don't recall, off hand, whether I mentioned yesterday that the latest installment...
February 15, 2019
    On one of the planes today, I began reading Rolf Dobelli, Die Kunst...
February 15, 2019
    Luke 5:1-11 Compare Matthew 13:1-3; 4:18-22; Mark 4:1-2; 1:16-20; John 21:1-11   On...
February 15, 2019
    It's Friday.  So, naturally -- did you really expect otherwise? -- there is...
February 14, 2019
    Matthew 8:14-15 Mark 1:23-31 Luke 4:38-39   The references in all three of...
February 14, 2019
    Another passage from Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin, The Banality of Suicide Terrorism: The Naked Truth...
February 14, 2019
    I found this article fascinating on several levels:   "Maya bones bring a...
February 14, 2019
    New, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   "Lasting Happiness Comes from...
February 14, 2019
    Last night, I read Chapter 3 in Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin, The Banality of...
February 14, 2019
    Matthew 4:18-22 Mark 1:16-20   In these accounts, Jesus calls Galilean fishermen --...
February 13, 2019
    You may perhaps have heard of the classical "fallacy of the beard," which...
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