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    So, to sum up, there's an event on Friday at noon and another...

    This author doesn't seem to feel very positive about Mr. Obama's nuclear deal...

    Some of you may find this interesting:     It conflicts just...

    “Can a truly absurd universe so convincingly mimic a meaningful one?”  Paul Davies,...

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/special-editorial-abortion-and-mr.-trump/article/2001825?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JVL+04_06_16   Of course, if you like this kind of thing, this is...

    The new finds just keep coming:     And I have no...

    The latest installment of my Thursday Deseret News column has appeared:  

       

  Walker Wright takes an interesting approach to the problem of radicalization of European Muslims....

    We're surely entitled to hope so.   And, if he is, it will...

    Today's reading is Mosiah 24.   Perhaps the most important take-away from it is...

    Here is the introduction that I gave tonight at the beginning of the...

    In a big family the first child is kind of like the first...

    Very interesting food for thought:          

    You may perhaps have missed Senator Ted Cruz's victory speech last night.  It...

    I promised, the other day, that I would post more details regarding the fireside...

     

    The latest issue (55/1) of BYU Studies is out:     And,...

    You might say that Mr. Donald Trump "choked" in Wisconsin.   As he...

       

      Thanks to Darby Walters for bringing this to my notice.  ...

      Alma's anti-monarchical stance in today's reading, Mosiah 23,  is quite striking.  It's plain...

    “Son," he said, "ye cannot in your present state understand eternity . ....

    I'm comforted, somehow, to realize that America doesn't have a monopoly on such...

    An interesting find -- suggesting that human grudges and rivalries weren't, alas, so...

    If you're philosophically inclined, or suspect that you might be; if you yearn...

    If Mr. Donald Trump wins today's Wisconsin primary, it will be very difficult...

    Just a bit more than a month away:      

    Not just pop culture trivia here.  Some really surprising stuff, from one of...

    A very quick and trivial comment about today's reading, Mosiah 22:   Some Latter-day...