2015-10-25T01:14:57-06:00

    You may or may not have heard of these items, but this is a very handy and interesting annotated list:   http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/december-web-only/biblical-archaeologys-top-ten-discoveries-of-2014.html   Posted from San Francisco, California     Read more

2015-10-25T00:49:38-06:00

    http://www.sltrib.com/home/3038794-155/book-review-mormons-are-ready-for   Incidentally, I typically shoot most of the people who approach my house, just to keep my skills up for when they’re really needed.   Posted from San Francisco, California     Read more

2015-10-25T00:25:15-06:00

    This extremely interesting study was kindly brought to my attention by Wally Paxton:   http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/22/science-and-religion/   It seems that irreligious people are more certain that religion conflicts with science than religious people are.   Posted from San Francisco, California     Read more

2015-10-24T23:39:02-06:00

    “I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.” St. Ignatius of Antioch   Posted from San Francisco, California     Read more

2015-10-24T13:01:49-06:00

    You may or may not have noticed the very recent tempest — there’s always a tempest, but its focus constantly changes — concerning a brief, passing, unscripted remark made during February 2014 by Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Council of Twelve in Buenos Aires, Argentina.   Referring to Catholics, he remarked before a local group of Latter-day Saints that “they don’t know who God is. They don’t know who the Savior is; nor do they know who the... Read more

2015-10-24T11:03:46-06:00

  Matthew 21:23-27 Mark 11:27-33 Luke 20:1-8 Compare John 2:18-22   These passages represent the chief priests and scribes of Jerusalem in Jesus’ day as rather cynical political calculators.   But they also raise another matter: the issue of authority.  Some visions of earliest Christianity suggest (or say outright) that “authority” meant nothing to Jesus and the primitive “Jesus movement,” which was, rather, a loose assemblage of first century counterculturists, sometimes depicted as essentially (I’ll bring them up since I’m not... Read more

2015-10-24T00:34:14-06:00

    Two stimulating articles on the topic:   “Family Structure Matters — Science Proves It”   “For Shame: Catherine Rampell and the Debate We’re Not Having Over Halting the Decline of Marriage”   Posted from San Francisco, California     Read more

2015-10-23T22:55:00-06:00

    Many people imagine that the so-called Islamic State is a clear-cut case of men using religion to oppress and exploit women.  Well, unfortunately it’s nowhere near that simple.  Some of the most poisonous and evil people in the leadership of the Islamic State are — amazingly enough — themselves women.  And, in at least one notable case, one of these prominent female criminals is a blonde British convert.  Mind-boggling, but true:   http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/equal-opportunity-terrorism_1042864.html   Yezidi women (the granddaughters... Read more

2015-10-23T22:16:03-06:00

    I read this stunning, devastating, article while flying over Nevada today:   http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/making-it-all_1042807.html?page=1   If the physical sciences were as ideologically-driven and devoid of rigor as this piece suggests the behavioral sciences to be, I wouldn’t have survived to read it.  Firemen would still be trying to extinguish the flames from the twisted metal of our flying machine at the end of the runway in Salt Lake City.   This is a real eye-opener.  And it was particularly astonishing... Read more

2015-10-23T20:55:24-06:00

    You may, perhaps, have missed the announcement of this pair of important new documents:   “Joseph Smith’s Teachings about Priesthood, Temple, and Women”   “Mother in Heaven”   Posted from San Francisco, California     Read more

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