The latest bi-weekly Hamblin-Peterson column for the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865641496/Nomadic-tent-shrines-and-stone-temples.html   Posted from Istanbul, Turkey Read more

    Everybody says Joseph Smith was lazy because of the things he didn’t do, but what about the things he did do? What good does it do to say that you, with your tiny routine of daily busywork, think another man is lazy if that man happens to accomplish more than ten ordinary men in a short lifetime? Joseph Smith’s activities are a matter of record and they are phenomenal. You might as well claim that Horowitz doesn’t know... Read more

    Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture actually published two review articles on Friday, not just one:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/a-modern-view-of-ancient-temple-worship/   Posted from Amsterdam, The Netherlands     Read more

    We arrived in Europe to the horrible headlines out of Paris.   This is a war.  Nobody should doubt that.   I’m moved by reports that the crowd at the stadium sang “La Marseillaise,” the French national anthem, after the attacks there:   http://video.foxnews.com/v/4611886625001/french-crowd-sings-national-anthem-after-paris-attacks/?intcmp=hpvid1#sp=show-clips   I hope that we’ll see more and more evidence of a determined European will to live, as illustrated by that response.   Posted from Amsterdam, The Netherlands     Read more

    I’m a bit late — I’ve been otherwise occupied for the past several hours — but I want to note that Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has, yet again, continued its monotonously regular habit of publishing new articles on Friday:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/vanquishing-the-mormon-menace/   Posted from Amsterdam, The Netherlands     Read more

  And he’s plainly leaving it to Beaver, Ozzie and Harriet, the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, and Norman Rockwell:     I don’t know who bears responsibility for this image of the pious paterfamilias Donald Trump — I would be much more than happy to, um, “credit” him or her for it! — but it’s just wrong. On so very, very many levels.   Posted from Portland, Oregon     Read more

    For all of those who’ve been upset by the Church’s recent policy clarification regarding same-sex couples and their children, or who know somebody who has been, or who have tried to exploit the clarification as a weapon against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or who have sought to defend the Church and its leaders against accusations of hatred and bigotry and of attempting to deny salvation to little children, and so forth, there is extremely important... Read more

    You may have heard about the run-amok political correctness that recently forced the resignation of a dean and a student officer at California’s Claremont-McKenna College (two female students had worn sombreros and painted mustaches at Halloween, or some such appalling crime) and of the chancellor and the president of the University of Missouri, and that’s led to demands for the resignation of the president of Ithaca College and demonstrations at Yale and unrest at roughly one hundred American colleges... Read more

    “You have enemies?  Good.  That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” Sir Winston Churchill   Posted from Salt Lake City, Utah     Read more

    I’m really quite excited for this new temple to come online:   http://www.ksl.com/?sid=37339775&nid=1284&title=an-early-look-at-the-provo-city-center-temple&fm=home_page&s_cid=topstory   Posted from Salt Lake City, Utah   Read more