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June 2015

June 02, 2015
    Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use...
June 02, 2015
    We spent the morning strolling around Richard Wagner's Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, the place...
June 02, 2015
      As a worried advocate of religious rights, I'm happy.  As a...
June 02, 2015
    Strikingly, this column (and apparently the speaker from which it draws) put the...
June 02, 2015
    I told you so.     And I wasn't the only one....
June 01, 2015
    There will be a conference of FairMormon this coming Thursday and Friday in...
June 01, 2015
    Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.  (Jean...
June 01, 2015
    The official name of the city of Wittenberg is actually Lutherstadt Wittenberg, "Luther...
June 01, 2015
      Posted from Bayreuth, Germany    
June 01, 2015
    Some nice remarks from Sharon Eubank (who's in a position to know) on...
June 01, 2015
    A really nice portrait of Elder L. Tom Perry in the Salt Lake...
June 01, 2015
      As I mentioned yesterday, the historical alchemist and astrologer Johann Faust (about...

May 2015

May 31, 2015
    Wittenberg is a quiet, quaint little town -- and especially so on Sundays...
May 31, 2015
    "Elder L. Tom Perry -- An uncommon life of service and enthusiasm"  ...
May 31, 2015
    The idea is popular in certain very small circles within the Church of...
May 31, 2015
    A vocal number of angry secularist ex-Mormons like to complain online about humanitarian...
May 31, 2015
    Some scattered quotations from the playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956):   Sometimes it's more...
May 30, 2015
    I'm so, so sad at this news.  (I wrote about Elder Perry yesterday,...
May 30, 2015
    I'm going to leave that to my students.  Let them worry about it:...
May 30, 2015
    I often marvel at the bizarre internet behavior of certain apostate critics of...
May 30, 2015
    This has become a recurrent theme of members of the Council of the...
May 30, 2015
    The latest installment of the semi-weekly Hamblin/Peterson Deseret News column is now up,...
May 30, 2015
    Not surprising.   Challenging, of course, for those of us who think it...
May 30, 2015
    For an interesting and by no means atypical case, see here:  
May 30, 2015
    My, my, my.  Applications for this quotation (in talks on morality, in responses...
May 29, 2015
    It's public knowledge now that Elder L. Tom Perry of the Council of...
May 29, 2015
    I've never participated in one of these, nor even attended one.  But it...
May 29, 2015
    There's a great deal in this article that strikes me as absolutely true...
May 29, 2015
    It's not, I have to candidly admit, at the top of my priority...
May 29, 2015
    Did you notice that it's Friday today?   If you didn't, the appearance...
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