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July 2015

July 06, 2015
    A nice statement on the Islamic idea of the fatwa, typically misunderstood in...
July 06, 2015
    . . .  when a group of black pastors urges civil disobedience against...
July 06, 2015
    The interesting exchange between Professors Philip Jenkins and William Hamblin continues:   Hamblin...
July 06, 2015
    "All happy families," Leo Tolstoy wrote, "are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy...
July 06, 2015
      Posted from Carlsbad, California    
July 05, 2015
    Were you aware that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is out on tour?  Here...
July 05, 2015
    "A happy family is but an earlier heaven."  (John Bowring, d. 1872)  ...
July 05, 2015
    Social science survey data indicates that they are.   But why?  
July 05, 2015
    Despite the almost instant phone call that I mentioned in my previous installment,...
July 04, 2015
      Posted from San Diego, California    
July 04, 2015
    Luke 12:1 Compare Matthew 16:5-6; Mark 8:14-15   "Beware of the leaven of...
July 04, 2015
    "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.  And moderation in the...
July 04, 2015
      "Our objective is clear," President Obama declared to the nation from...
July 04, 2015
    Things are a bit out of joint here in California.   A few...
July 04, 2015
    Luke 11:37-54 Compare Matthew 15:1-9; Mark 7:1-9; Luke 20:46; John 8:6   These...
July 04, 2015
    Many years before, when I was still an undergraduate student at BYU, I...
July 04, 2015
    To every American out there.  Even to those who apparently loathe and despise...
July 04, 2015
    This could be very helpful.  And it may offer some reassurance, too:  
July 04, 2015
    The first time I met Boyd K. Packer was sometime in the first...
July 04, 2015
    In nature there's no blemish but the mind.None can be called deformed but...
July 03, 2015
    Luke 11:34-36 Compare Matthew 6:22-23   I'm sure that the Savior's comment here...
July 03, 2015
    Unfortunately, this is the world in which we now live:    ...
July 03, 2015
    Not altogether surprising, but, still, sad:     This may also be...
July 03, 2015
    It being Friday, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has published yet another essay...
July 03, 2015
    Canada doesn't have a precise equivalent to the First Amendment to the Constitution...
July 03, 2015
    Our universe is, actually, quite a remarkable place.   And its "remarkableness" is...
July 03, 2015
    We participated in a session at the San Diego Temple this afternoon with the...
July 02, 2015
      I'm not particularly enthused with the idea of abolishing Sunday School....
July 02, 2015
    David French, an Evangelical Christian with a Harvard law degree, writes an insightful...
July 02, 2015
    "We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others."  (John...
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