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    "What can you do to promote world peace?  Go home and love your...

    The argument that Professor Forsdyke is developing, if it pans out, has potentially...

    Any mainstream, believing Latter-day Saint is likely to feel at least some ambivalence...

      http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/192442/researchers-ancient-scroll-discovered-in-israeli-contains-verses-from-leviticus?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=post&utm_content=RESEARCHERS%3A+ANCIENT+SCROLL+DISCOVERED+IN+ISRAEL+CONTAINS+VERSES+FROM+LEVITICUS&utm_campaign=july2015   Thanks to Jabra Ghneim for calling my attention to this...

      Some interesting this way comes, from Brant Gardner:      

    Luke 14:25-33 Compare Matthew 10:37-38   This passage exhorts us to an interesting...

    Here's an interesting "exchange" between two respected Latter-day Saint academics:    ...

    “I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And...

    He's a believer, but he demands no boycotts and doesn't call for bombing...

    Luke 14:15-24 Compare Matthew 22:1-14   When I hear occasional reports of multigenerational...

    This is a fascinating find.   And one of the dates involved is...

    In honor of the Pioneer Day weekend, I post, yet again, a link...

    "ISIS and other extremist movements across the region are enslaving, killing, and uprooting...

    The most recent Hamblin/Peterson Deseret News column is up:     Unfortunately,...

    "When love is not madness, it is not love."  (Pedro Calderón de la...

    Luke 14:7-14 Compare Matthew 23:12; Luke 18:14; John 5:29   This has always...

        Several prophets appear to have been given some such experience by...

    My friend and former Maxwell Institute colleague Matt Roper has posted a note...

      This is the kind of thing that I would like to see...

    My thanks to John Hancock for bringing this important and persuasive article to...

    “Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the...

    Luke 14:1-6   The question that Jesus poses to the Pharisees isn't, strictly...

    It's that day of the week, right?   So a new article has...

    I'm sure that he has many merits.  His "Samaritan's Purse" charity seems to...

    As currently understood and reported, this discovery doesn't appear directly relevant to the...

    "To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven...

    Some proponents of the so-called "Heartland" model of Book of Mormon geography have...

    A very nice conversion story:   http://www.ldsliving.com/What-Happened-When-My-Rabbi-Told-Me-to-Read-the-Book-of-Mormon/s/79536?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=email    

    The Never-Ending Story:   Hamblin 34:  From Smoot   Jenkins 22:  Credible and...

      I'm pretty excited about the (familiar) places where the Choir will be...