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June 2015

June 22, 2015
    Noticing my recent posts in defense of Brigham Young, my friend, onetime FARMS...
June 22, 2015
    "Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little...
June 22, 2015
    I heard the Mormon Tabernacle Choir perform this Harry Belafonte/Alan Greene/Malvina Reynolds song...
June 22, 2015
    I could have been happy, I think, as an English major.  In any...
June 22, 2015
    A fascinating article from the Economist entitled "The Present Past" -- which I hadn't...
June 22, 2015
    Almost immediately after I posted my previous item on "The vile despot Brigham...
June 22, 2015
      Luke 10:21-24 Compare Matthew 11:25-27; 13:16-17; John 3:35; 7:29; 10:14-15; 13:3; 17:2,...
June 22, 2015
    You may have heard of "word prints" as a way of trying to...
June 22, 2015
    "The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to...
June 22, 2015
    As the legal and social climate in the United States becomes more adverse,...
June 22, 2015
      Thanks to Allen Hansen for bringing this to my attention.  Born and...
June 22, 2015
    A marvelous article by Matt Holland, historically informative and, even more, inspiring:  ...
June 22, 2015
    "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one...
June 21, 2015
    It's fashionable in some (usually politically and theologically leftish) Mormon, fringe-Mormon, and ex-Mormon...
June 21, 2015
    I thought the movie fairly good.  I can recommend it.  The story, however,...
June 21, 2015
        “Brethren, shall we not go on in so great a cause?...
June 21, 2015
    I'm in a poetic vein.  And it's the Sabbath.  So, here, I share...
June 21, 2015
    An interesting list:     I realize, of course, that there's been...
June 21, 2015
    Cassandra Hedelius, Martin Tanner, and Bruce Webster joined in this 126th roundtable from...
June 21, 2015
    Luke 10:17-20 Compare Mark 16:17-18; John 12:31   This passage has always struck...
June 21, 2015
    I've already called attention to the exchange between Dr. Phillip Jenkins, a Catholic-turned-Episcopalian historian...
June 21, 2015
    In the Interpreter Foundation's 125th scripture roundtable, Cassandra Hedelius, Jeff Bradshaw, McKay White,...
June 21, 2015
    Somebody -- to my embarrassment, I can't now recall who it was --...
June 21, 2015
    It was nearly five decades ago now, in August 1967, that Elder John...
June 20, 2015
    This is a fantastic effort to recover the family histories -- and the...
June 20, 2015
    Blaine Johnson, a Latter-day Saint attempting to serve people in the area, calls...
June 20, 2015
    "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole...
June 20, 2015
    A short while ago, I published Mitt Romney's tweet calling for the Confederate...
June 20, 2015
    Michael Oren is not only the former ambassador of Israel to the United...
June 20, 2015
    A tweet from Mitt Romney:   Take down the #ConfederateFlag at the SC...
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