Are you as enthusiastic about this as I am?  How do you feel about it?   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422165/sexual-harassment-boy-scouts-badge-sexual-ethics-minnesota   Posted from the 17th annual FairMormon conference Provo, Utah   Read more

    http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/goliath-gate-archaeologists-uncover-entrance-biblical-city-gath-n404016   Thanks to Cindi Whittaker Sainsbury for bringing this to my notice.   Posted from the 17th annual FairMormon conference Provo, Utah     Read more

    Fanatic intolerance is, alas, not limited to Islam and Muslims.   By no means are all of “ultra orthodox” Jews like this.  But some are.   My thanks to Jabra Ghneim for alerting me to this item:   http://www.haaretz.com/beta/.premium-1.669785?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Facebook   Posted from the floor of the 17th annual FairMormon conference Provo, Utah Read more

    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865633921/Is-religion-merely-outdated-failed-science.html   Posted from the 17th annual FairMormon conference Provo, Utah     Read more

    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865633808/LDS-Church-announces-publication-of-the-printers-manuscript-of-the-Book-of-Mormon.html?pg=all   This new publication is based upon the already published work of Dr. Royal Skousen.  Here’s a nice example of that work:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/books/volume-4-of-the-critical-text-of-the-book-of-mormon-analysis-of-textual-variants-of-the-book-of-mormon/     Read more

      Luke 16:19-31   One of the great New Testament parables.   I’ll concentrate on just one thing:   It’s amazing to me to watch as some people casually dismiss evidence supportive of the claims of the Restoration that I see as extraordinarily powerful (e.g., the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon).   I can’t help but think, in such cases, of the reaction of Laman and Lemuel to their rebuke by an angel, as recounted in 1 Nephi... Read more

    You can just walk in, if you haven’t already registered:   http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/fair-conferences/conf15a   It’s going to be a good one.  Up almost to the end, anyway.     Read more

    “The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”   The usual attribution of this remark to Mark Twain probably isn’t accurate.   It hardly matters, though, because the statement is true regardless of who made it.     Read more

    And what do you want to bet that this won’t be the last surprise that science will serve up to us?   http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/giant-mystery-ring-of-galaxies-should-not-exist-150804.htm   A little humility might still be advisable.  What we don’t know is vastly greater than what we do.     Read more

    Luke 16:18 Compare Matthew 5:32; 19:9; Mark 10:11-12   This is an extraordinarily tough standard.  There’s much to be said about it, and a number of questions to be asked and, perhaps, answered.   But, right now, I don’t have the time to do this verse justice.   So — accuse me of cowardice if you like! — I’m not going to try.   Does it leave any possible room for doubt, though, as to how the Lord... Read more