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June 2016

June 14, 2016
    I tend to take such things cum grano salis, as the saying has...
June 14, 2016
    “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously....
June 13, 2016
    I'm repeatedly asked why Muslims don't condemn Islamist terrorism.   I myself think...
June 13, 2016
    Thanks to Robert Boylan for calling this interesting presentation to my notice, by...
June 13, 2016
    In today's reading, Alma 27, the Nephites give the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi a...
June 13, 2016
    What we don't know is actually very big and absolutely basic:  
June 13, 2016
    Two years ago today, our first grandchild was born in Orlando, Florida.  ...
June 13, 2016
    “I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with...
June 12, 2016
      We’re all horrified by today’s mass murder in Orlando.   Although I'm...
June 12, 2016
    This is a pretty simple illustration of the logical problem at the core...
June 12, 2016
    Today's reading, Alma 26, raises an important issue for those who seek to...
June 12, 2016
    In the 169th scripture roundtable to be posted by the Interpreter Foundation, Steve...
June 12, 2016
    Rabi‘a al-‘Adawiyya of Basra (AD 717 to AD 801) was a great early...
June 12, 2016
      Unless I'm seriously mistaken, there were no confirmed planets outside our solar...
June 12, 2016
    A colony is a beachhead, an outpost, an island of one culture in...
June 12, 2016
    About a week ago, I posted a quotation from George D. Ritchie, M.D.,...
June 11, 2016
    Sadly, it seems pretty definite that Mitt Romney won't be challenging Clinton  But...
June 11, 2016
    In the 168th scripture roundtable posted by the Interpreter Foundation, which is directed...
June 11, 2016
    What has been, up to now, Mr. Donald Trump's favorite poll shows him falling...
June 11, 2016
    Martin Tanner, Mike Parker, and Dan Peterson come together for the 167th scripture...
June 11, 2016
    A previously unpublished book by my longtime friend, the eminent scholar John Sorenson,...
June 11, 2016
      I can think of at least two possible (and very gratifying)...
June 11, 2016
    Today's reading, Alma 25, illustrates -- as if more examples were needed --...
June 11, 2016
    I'm sure that they don't intend to chain the people of Africa to...
June 11, 2016
       
June 11, 2016
    The latest incarnation of the biweekly Hamblin/Peterson column for the Deseret News:  ...
June 11, 2016
    My wife and I spent a significant portion of the day at the...
June 10, 2016
    It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's...
June 10, 2016
    This is the kind of story that I love to hear:  
June 10, 2016
    A rim of mountains runs along the western side of the penin­sula. These...
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