Here’s a curious bit of . . . well, I guess it’s a kind of science:   http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/se/163133.html   Posted from Springfield, Illinois     Read more

    “In public pronouncements in Nauvoo, the Prophet made clear his support of the enduring economic principle of individual ownership.  The issue was raised  in September 1843, when a traveling English socialist, John Finch, preached from the stand in the grove.  Smith responded by denouncing Finch’s socialism.” Glen M. Leonard, Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, A People of Promise (Salt Lake City and Provo: Deseret Book and Brigham Young University Press, 2002), 142-143.   Posted from Springfield, Illinois  ... Read more

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mette-ivie-harrison/how-to-manage-mormon-missionaries_b_8032206.html   Posted from Springfield, Illinois   Read more

      Mathematics is beautiful.   http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/17/arts/math-art/index.html   Why?   Posted from Springfield, Illinois     Read more

  Given where I now sit, I think it appropriate to call attention again to one of the most wonderful pieces of English prose that I know, a letter from Abraham Lincoln to a Mrs. Bixby who, it was believed at the time, had lost five sons in the ongoing Civil War.  (It turned out, eventually, that she had actually lost only two.)   Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864. Dear Madam,– I have been shown in the files of... Read more

    it’s Friday, and — shazaam! — another article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/you-more-than-owe-me-this-benefit-onomastic-rhetoric-in-philemon/     Read more

    http://kutv.com/news/local/utah-is-the-happiest-state-in-the-nation-study-says   I expect that the howls of derision have already begun.  This simply must not, cannot, be true.  Mormonism destroys lives, makes people miserable.     Read more

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424197/carly-fiorina-prolife-debate-planned-parenthood   Watch the video, too.     Read more

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/how-the-black-plague-became-a-deadly-force/6768776   And here’s a cheery thought:  Did you know that the Black Death is alive and well (and that it’s endemic to the wildlife of the western United States)?   Now lets go camping!     Read more

    On 27 November 1832, the Prophet wrote from Kirtland to his friend William W. Phelps, who was editing the Church newspaper in Jackson County, Missouri.  Contained in that letter is the following passage, impassioned with yearning and impatient at the constraints imposed by our fallen mortality:   Oh Lord when will the time come when Brother William thy Servent and myself behold the day that we may stand together and gase upon Eternal wisdom engraven upon the hevens... Read more