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    The future starts today, not tomorrow.  Pope St. John Paul II    

    As I almost always am with this series of reflections, I'm acutely aware...

    Today's installment of my weekly Deseret News column ("Defending the Faith") has appeared:...

    Dr. Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary, which is located in Charlotte,...

    During my lifetime, as the author himself says, the pendulum has swung from...

    Our two-party system has, on the whole, served us well.  But there is...

    Today's reading, Alma 12, contains far more than I will be able to...

    "I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good...

    As some of y0u may have noticed, I'm extremely fond of Turkey, one...

    I'm grateful to my longtime friend and former Maxwell Institute colleague for bringing...

    Some remarks on factionalism from George Washington's famous "Farewell Address," delivered on 19...

    Would you not say to yourself, in whatever language supercalculating intellects use, "Some...

    First, a piece by David French:     Second, an article by...

      Today's reading is Alma 11.   I've already posted recently -- here...

    If I were a businessman or a venture capitalist, I would see this...

    With a group from our neighborhood, my wife and I regularly go out...

    An interesting short piece by the famous University of Chicago church historian Martin...

    Higher numbers of children typically mean less education for each child.   But...

    “Faith is a footbridge that you don't know will hold you up over...

    “Truly, those who believe, and those who practice Judaism, and the Christians, and...

    A Hamblin/Peterson Deseret News article from nearly 3.5 years ago that I think...

    As if the possibility of a Trump presidency weren't scary enough on its...

    http://injo.com/2016/05/609915-mormons-libertarian-trump-hillary/?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=political-edit&utm_medium=owned   I'm proud of my fellow-religionists' misgivings about Mr. Donald Trump.  ...

    Many support Mr. Donald Trump for the presidency because of his alleged business...

    This article appeared in -- of all places! -- the Washington Post:  ...

    The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing...

    Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand...

    It was announced a few weeks ago that British-born Michael Otterson, who is...

    This is a very good step, I think:     Given his...

    “Abba is not Hebrew, the language of liturgy, but Aramaic, the language of...