Come on.  There must be at least one of your children you’d be willing — perhaps even eager — to sell!   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865643318/A-book-you-cant-afford-yet-cant-afford-to-miss.html?pg=all     Read more

    “Do not go where the path may lead.  Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson     Read more

    I’m very pleased to learn of this admirable effort, which was brought to my notice by Nicol Sorenson-Legakis:   http://www.people.com/article/american-muslims-raise-more-than-119000-san-bernardino-shooting-victims?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemagvnn           Read more

    I was extremely busy yesterday from early in the morning until late at night — it was, among other things, my last teaching day this semester, and one of the classes actually took its final exam — and I missed mentioning yesterday’s “Social” component of the Church’s “A Savior is Born” Christmas campaign:   So here it is.  It’s a duet of “The Prayer” by David Archuleta and Nathan Pacheco, and it’s a beauty.  Please watch it:  ... Read more

    It’s Friday.  So, unsurprisingly, there’s a new article from Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/viewing-the-temple-through-wilford-woodruffs-eyes/   Have you ever noticed, by the way, the column to the right on the article page indicating the different formats in which that article can be accessed?  You can obtain it in print, for example.  Or you can listen to an audio recording of it.   We’re trying to make our materials as easily accessible as we can.     Read more

      http://news.sciencemag.org/space/2015/12/most-likely-spots-life-milky-way     Read more

    Maddie Wilson offers today’s contribution to the “Social” element of the 2015 Christmas campaign “A Savior is Born”:   https://www.mormon.org/christmas/maddie-wilson     Read more

    Thanks to Shereen Emara Salah for bringing this article to my attention:   http://davisclipper.com/view/full_story/26995597/article-Growing-up-Muslim-among-the-Mormons?instance=lead_story_left_column     Read more

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has revealed the design for its soon-to-be-built temple in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Ground for the new temple will be broken on 12 February 2016, in a ceremony presided over by Elder Neal L. Andersen, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.   As can readily be seen, the new temple will be very small and very modest:   http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/kinshasa/   Now, one might... Read more

    It’s unspeakably depressing to see the damage that a sinister and demagogical buffoon is doing to the Republican Party and to the cause of conservatism:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428354/donald-trump-muslim-ban-absurd   Maybe this nation does, after all, deserve what it seems likely to get.     Read more