Many thanks to Jabra Ghneim for calling this item to my attention:   https://www.zawya.com/story/Lebanon_s_Mormons_an_active_and_diverse_bunch-DS05*08*2015_dsart*309712/     Read more

    A then-prominent apostate who’s since been excommunicated (but who was still, at that point, claiming to be very much a Mormon in some inscrutable sense) made an astoundingly foolish comment to a national news organization back in 2011 about the Book of Mormon musical:  “I’m super excited,” he said.  “I think this is our Mormon moment.  The Jews had Fiddler [on the Roof] and the Catholics had Sound of Music and now we have this.”   Ummm, no.   Fiddler on the Roof and The Sound of... Read more

    I’m absolutely DELIGHTED to see this article, which is forthcoming in the October 2015 issue of the Ensign but is already available online:   https://www.lds.org/ensign/2015/10/joseph-the-seer?lang=eng   Thanks to Travis Miller and Rodney Ross for alerting me to its early publication.     Read more

    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.”  (Mark Twain)     Read more

    Somebody brought this interesting article by a Protestant writer to my attention several days ago, but, to my embarrassment, I can no longer remember who or where it was:   http://www.faithit.com/10-toxic-christians-in-the-church-today/   I imagine that we’ve all met people like those described in the article at some time or another.  And been people like them.   My apologies.  I like to thank people for alerting me to things, but, in this case, I can’t.   Posted from Victoria,... Read more

    Elder Lyman Johnson, the first apostle called in this dispensation to serve in the Twelve, fell away in Kirtland, Ohio.   According to a Utah recollection of Brigham Young, Johnson made roughly the following comment at a meeting of the Twelve, his former colleagues, several years later in Nauvoo, Illinois:   If I could believe “Mormonism” as I did when I traveled with you and preached, if I possessed the world I would give it.  I would give... Read more

    Thanks to Jabra Ghneim for calling my attention to this:   http://www.npr.org/2015/08/03/429010005/opulent-and-apolitical-the-art-of-the-mets-islamic-galleries?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150803   Posted from Victoria, British Columbia     Read more

    Luke 16:16-17 Compare Matthew 5:18; 11:12-13; 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33   This passage may not seem entirely clear.  But one thing is clear:  Jesus is not denouncing the Law of Moses.  Forms of Protestantism than denigrate the Law do so in opposition to the Savior himself, in whose name they sometimes claim to do it.   Posted from Victoria, British Columbia     Read more

    When I was very, very young, and fondly thinking that I would become an astronomer — it was well after Galileo used his first telescope, by the way — we didn’t even dream of such things:   http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/08/filling_in_our_solar_system.html   Posted from Victoria, British Columbia   Read more