Here’s an interesting piece involving not just recent news headlines but a Christian tradition little known or understood in America:   http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2015/1123/Is-Russia-s-intervention-in-Syria-a-holy-war-Russian-Orthodox-Church-yes?cmpid=TW   Posted from Madrid, Spain     Read more

    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865641353/Marvel-might-already-have-plans-and-back-up-for-characters.html?pg=all#6XvP7boHBTTwpj4f.01   Posted from Madrid, Spain     Read more

    Nice article, with one or two minor errors:   http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-religion-watch-mormon-20151127-story.html   The comments are another matter.  Some of them aren’t just anti-Mormon, they’re racist.  Haters gotta hate, I suppose.   (Thanks to Cody Quirk for bringing this article to my notice.)   Posted from Madrid, Spain     Read more

    The latest installment in the bi-weekly Hamblin/Peterson column for the Deseret News has been published:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865642577/The-inspiring-world-of-medieval-Crdoba.html?pg=all   Posted from Madrid, Spain     Read more

    Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. Miguel de Cervantes (b. 1547, Alcalá de Henares; d. 1616, Madrid)   Posted from Madrid, Spain     Read more

    A brilliant young Deseret News film writer offers some advice for the next few weeks of movie-going:   http://www.deseretnews.com/top/3457/0/From-Katniss-to-Kylo-Ren-17-movies-to-watch-for-this-holiday-season.html   Posted from Madrid, Spain     Read more

    I’m a bit late with this one, unfortunately.  But it’s still worth posting and worth your reading — not least because Scientific American is saying much the same thing here that I’ve been trying to say in recent years.   Really.  Have a look at this:   http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/5-reasons-to-thank-your-lucky-constants-this-thanksgiving/   Posted from Madrid, Spain   Read more

    I thank Kevin Taylor for bringing this piece to my attention:   https://www.baptiststandard.com/news/texas/18534-faith-will-prevail-over-atheism-oxford-prof-mcgrath-predicts   I’m in awe of Alister McGrath’s prolific and varied publication record.  He’s a remarkably bright fellow.   Posted from Madrid, Spain   Read more

    http://www.tmatt.net/columns/2015/11/18/working-to-bring-the-dna-of-life-and-faith-to-off-broadway-stages   I saw this play at the Pioneer Theater in Salt Lake City perhaps a year ago, and I was quite impressed.  Partly, of course, because my respect and affection for the work of C. S. Lewis knows no bounds.  But also because this is precisely the sort of thing that, in my opinion, Christians need to be doing right now.  The kind of thing that Latter-day Saint Christians need to be doing, too:  Taking the message directly... Read more

    As it happens, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has published a second piece today:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/the-old-testament-and-presuppositions/   Posted from Madrid, Spain     Read more