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November 2016

November 30, 2016
    Back in the mid- to late seventies, when I was still an undergraduate...
November 29, 2016
    Mitt Romney has been much talked about as a potential Secretary of State...
November 29, 2016
    More advanced telescopes are allowing us to detect dim galaxies that we couldn't...
November 29, 2016
    On his superb blog, the wonderful Robert Boylan calls attention to a speech...
November 29, 2016
    This article appeared in the Jewish periodical Forward back before the presidential election:...
November 28, 2016
    Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to...
November 28, 2016
    A few weeks ago, my wife and I watched a Norwegian disaster film...
November 28, 2016
    As some of you may have noticed, I wasn't a particularly enthusiastic supporter...
November 28, 2016
    A regular writer for National Review challenges a recent article (also published in...
November 28, 2016
    Next year's adult Sunday School curriculum will focus on the Doctrine and Covenants...
November 28, 2016
    I've just stumbled across what looks to be a very interesting blog devoted...
November 28, 2016
    As some of you have noticed, I've recently quoted from a book by...
November 28, 2016
    It seems time, once again, to share one of my very favorite passages...
November 27, 2016
    "I'm reminded of the [Richard] Dawkins-sponsored ads that appeared on the sides of...
November 27, 2016
  إِذْ قَالَتِ الْمَلآئِكَةُ يَا مَرْيَمُ إِنَّ اللّهَ يُبَشِّرُكِ بِكَلِمَةٍ مِّنْهُ اسْمُهُ الْمَسِيحُ عِيسَى ابْنُ...
November 27, 2016
    "Perhaps this tendency to idolize the legends of science is connected to a...
November 27, 2016
    Nearly -- incredibly -- a quarter of a century after it was first...
November 27, 2016
    But can it be that those things which are most important and most...
November 26, 2016
    A statement on the passing of Mr. Fidel Castro from the 2016 Republican...
November 26, 2016
    Another way in which an education at Brigham Young University offers students very...
November 26, 2016
    I published this Christmas-oriented column three years ago in the Deseret News:  
November 26, 2016
    I intend to join in this effort.  I hope that you will, too:...
November 26, 2016
    1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together...
November 26, 2016
    It completely slipped my mind, as I spent almost all of the day...
November 26, 2016
    Fidel Castro has been a prominent figure in my consciousness for as long...
November 26, 2016
    My friend and former BYU colleague Bill Hamblin and I write a jointly...
November 26, 2016
    This is an especially interesting area of contemporary astronomy:      
November 25, 2016
    "Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does." William James...
November 25, 2016
    "Truly, God will not change the condition of a people until they change what...
November 25, 2016
    We're just barely past Thanksgiving, and, already, some critics of the Church of...
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