I heard this speech.   It was nothing but insults and vicious ad hominems, mingled with lies:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865634966/Speaker-gives-barebones-secular-argument-for-the-gospel.html?clear_cache=1     Read more

    “I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. . . .  We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.” Sir John C.... Read more

    No, GEICO isn’t paying me to push this commercial:   http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7UFD/geico-kraken-its-what-you-do   I just think it’s funny.     Read more

    John 8:12-20   If you know Jesus, in some significant sense, you know the Father — of whom Jesus is a perfectly faithful representation.     Read more

    Some writers have claimed that the Gadianton robbers are a clear pointer to the Book of Mormon as nineteenth-century fiction.   They’re wrong.   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865634905/Book-of-Mormon-parallels-that-are-all-too-easy-to-find.html     Read more

    A Latter-day Saint argues, in the Huffington Post, that we are:   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mette-ivie-harrison/are-mormons-christians_b_7999120.html   I guess I’ll go ahead and mention that I myself once wrote something on this question:   http://www.amazon.com/Offenders-Word-Daniel-C-Peterson/dp/0934893357/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1440089307&sr=8-1&keywords=offenders+for+a+word     Read more

    Once in a while, unfortunately, its language is a bit raw, but it’s a really interesting article:   http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/     Read more

    Thanks to Jabra Ghneim for bringing this significant item to my notice:   http://www.mintpressnews.com/christians-muslims-heed-interfaith-call-to-fight-isis-with-muhammads-peaceful-message/208674/     Read more

    I think this is both really good news and a really good idea:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/women-church-leaders-appointed-to-leadership-councils   Some journalistic reports, of course, have been largely turned over to critics, who boast that it’s happened because of their efforts and complain that it’s too little and that it’s come too late and insist that they’ll continue to demand more.     Read more

    I’m not — to put it mildly — a supporter of Hillary Clinton.   But even if I were, I would have to acknowledge that she lacks her husband’s smooth political skills.   Here’s an example:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422700/hillary-clinton-black-lives-matter-video   Here’s another:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422764/hillary-clinton-emails-press-conference-dishonest   Things are really beginning to look up for the Democratic presidential ticket that I prefer, and that I’ve already endorsed:  the socialist Bernie Sanders and the racial statesman and noted authority on taxes Al... Read more