We hear, quite often, of “scientific consensus.”   This fine little article makes a very important point in that regard:   http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2015/09/29/should_scientific_truth_be_subjected_to_a_vote_109398.html   Posted from Victor, New York     Read more

    As General Conference approaches and three vacancies exist in the Quorum of the Twelve, the Church publishes an official statement:   https://www.lds.org/prophets-and-apostles/unto-all-the-world/calling-an-apostle-of-god?cid=HP_MO_9-28-2015_dPTH_fPROP_xLIDyL1-B_&lang=eng   Posted from Victor, New York     Read more

    “We know now that there are three worlds: the telestial, in which we live; the celestial, to which we aspire; and in between them another world, called the terrestrial. It is of neither the celestial nor the telestial. According to the ancients, this world is represented by the temple, the in-between world where the rites of passage take place.” Hugh W. Nibley   On this trip, we’ve been privileged to visit three modern temples.  We did a session... Read more

    This interview with Elder Jeffrey Holland is interesting both for what it says and what it doesn’t say:   http://fornspollfira.blogspot.com/2015/09/religious-studies-at-byu.html   Posted at Victor, New York     Read more

      You may have missed this interesting find:   http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/thonis-a-major-egyptian-port-swallowed-by-the-sea/   http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/labcoat-life/a_sunken_egyptian_city_is   There are still important archaeological discoveries to be made.  Let’s just hope that ISIS doesn’t get around to destroying them for at least a while.  Because that’s change you can believe in.   Posted from Victor, New York     Read more

    No, it’s not me.  (My critics will be bitterly disappointed.)   It’s Julie Rowe:   https://kutv.com/news/local/controversial-lds-author-tells-followers-to-peace-out-following-lunar-eclipse-end-time   I sincerely wish her and her family all the best.   Posted from Victor, New York     Read more

    Joseph Smith was harassed from the very beginning. “Soon after the Church Began to gro,” remembered Joseph Knight, Sr., “the people Began to Be angry and to persecute and Cald them fools and said they ware Decived.”[1] Knight tells of one occasion, for example, when Joseph was arrested in Chenango County and, because the trial could not be convened soon enough, was held over night. But when the charges against him were dismissed the following day, he was immediately... Read more

    http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/09/our_know-nothing_anti-science_anti-intellectual_presidential_candidates.html   Could it be that crazy Uncle Joe, der Gaffemeister, will be the last one standing?   Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon, Going to the candidates’ debate. Laugh about it, shout about it, When you’ve got to choose Ev’ry way you look at it, you lose. Where have you gone, Joseph Biden?  Oh, A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.  Woo, woo, woo!   Posted from Victor, New York     Read more

    He came to me from the fields With the gold of the grain in his eyes, And soon he was beyond me, Having seen the white sea of light          where angels are. [Lucy Mack Smith, speaking of her son, the young Joseph Smith, in the poetic drama The Prophet, by Clinton F. Larson]   Posted from Victor, New York     Read more

    Two LDS scholars argue that, indeed, we can:   http://johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2002/vision.html   Are you curious?   Posted from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada     Read more