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    One of the high points, for me, of our recent visit to Israel...

    Matthew 15:32-39 Mark 8:1-10   I have absolutely no explanation for the miraculous...

    England's medieval Canterbury Cathedral would have been so much nicer if it hadn't...

    "You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon...

    Matthew 15:29-31 Mark 7:31-37   This particular passage occurs only in Matthew and...

      John F. Kennedy won a Pulitzer Prize in 1957 for Profiles in...

    A nice and characteristically on-target little piece (in his series of posts on...

    Will Rogers used to wonder why people objected to politicians.  "After all," he...

    Thanks to Kent Stephens for bringing this striking item to my notice:  ...

    This chilling article is a tad on the long side.   But you...

    If Christopher Hitchens was right, that "religion poisons everything," New York City would...

    More than a few commentators, writing about the recent attack by two radical...

    "The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated."  (William...

    For your trivia file:   http://ldsliving.com/story/78511-8-famous-people-who-became-mormons?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=popular&utm_content=pop2150508    

    A new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture -- for...

    This blog entry by Nathaniel Givens, which my friend Bianca Lisonbee kindly brought...

    This is distinctly odd:   http://ldsliving.com/story/78845-is-joseph-smith-really-in-lego-pirates-of-the-caribbean?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=email   I'm sure there's a back story....

    Matthew 15:21-28 Mark 7:24-30   Tyre and Sidon, major coastal cities still today...

    For your edification:     Incidentally, part of the problem that I...

    Amid all the bustle and pressing business and weekend plans of a typical Friday,...

    Since some have asked, I'll answer here:   I think that Pamela Geller...

    The Sermon on the Mount, judging from the Hitchens principle that "religion poisons...

    I was a big Kurt Vonnegut reader in high school.  I devoured his...

    This relatively short article offers an interesting window into the human side of...

      A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder...

    I think that I may have neglected to post a link to this...

    Matthew 15:1-20 Mark 7:1-23 Compare Luke 6:39; 11:37-41   The scribes and Pharisees...

    As I've said several times before, I wish we had a President:  ...

    No.  Inconceivable.  There's nothing whatever to worry about.  This could never happen.  Don't...

    I became vaguely aware through my wife, several years ago, that a very...