2015-07-22T15:09:59-06:00

    Luke 13:22-30 Compare Matthew 7:13-14, 8:10-12; 19:30; 22-23; 25:10-12, 41   I lean toward universalism.  Not quite all the way, but close.  And not in doctrine — I don’t teach it — but in hope.   I don’t know how things will ultimately end up.  I hope that damnation for almost all will be temporary.  A learning experience.   I’ve always been fond of a comment by Pope John Paul II.  When asked once whether a Christian must... Read more

2015-07-22T14:02:34-06:00

    This is extraordinary.  Very, very exciting:   http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33436021   Thanks to Shereen Emara Salah, Jabra Ghneim, and Christopher Wright for calling it to my attention.  They weren’t mistaken in thinking that I would be extremely interested.     Read more

2015-07-22T13:43:06-06:00

    Here’s an extraordinarily touching letter (kindly brought to my attention by Charles Steinman) from what might seem an unlikely source — the staunchly atheistic, fiercely honest, remarkably brilliant Nobel-laureate Caltech physicist Richard Feynman:   http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/02/i-love-my-wife-my-wife-is-dead.html   I never met him myself, but, because Caltech wasn’t far from where I grew up, some in my circles did.  (I may once or twice, without knowing it, have seen him playing the bongo drums at a little nightclub on Colorado Boulevard.... Read more

2015-07-22T13:23:33-06:00

    Those parts of a computer system that you can smash with a hammer, it’s said, are called “hardware.”  Computer programs, which you can only curse at, are called “software.”   You may have noticed that Sic et Non has been having problems for the past eighteen hours or so.  Or, far worse, you may not have noticed.  (I feel so lonely, sometimes!)   Anyway, I hope and believe that the problem is essentially past, and that things will work more... Read more

2015-07-22T09:11:39-06:00

    It’s getting a bit late, but there still might be time, particularly if it’s a matter of submitting an already completed article or finishing an article that’s already underway:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/the-ruth-m-stephens-article-prize/   Please take note of this, and bring it to the attention of others.     Read more

2015-07-22T09:11:40-06:00

    1.   One of the things notably absent from this article by Kate Kelly is any conviction of the truth of Mormon claims, or of the unique value of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Quite the contrary:   http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/2738628-155/kate-kelly-if-staying-in-lds   She seems uninterested in truth claims, or even in what mainstream Mormons believe to be supernatural power and divine authority connected with priesthood, but is focused, rather, on status and practical “political” power within an... Read more

2015-07-22T09:11:40-06:00

    Dr. Thomas Sowell is one of America’s premier thinkers, and one of my absolute favorite writes, on economics and on public policy:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421416/iran-deal-worst-political-blunder-ever   Indeed.   A somewhat relevant note:   Within hours of the 5-4 SCOTUS Obergefell v. Hodges, the White House was bathed in celebratory rainbow colors.   I thought it an unnecessary and obnoxious gesture, a triumphalistically in-your-face victory dance that trivialized and marginalized the deep moral convictions of scores of millions of good... Read more

2015-07-22T09:11:40-06:00

    Think again!   Jenkins 20:  It’s all coincidence   Jenkins 21:  The empirical past?   Hamblin 32:  Peterson speaks! — er, writes.   Hamblin 33:  Moving the goal posts     Read more

2015-07-22T09:11:40-06:00

    Jeff Bradshaw, Shon Hopkin, Martin Tanner, and Bruce Webster join for this, the 132nd Interpreter Foundation scripture roundtable.  In line with the outline for Lesson 34 in the 2015 New Testament Gospel Doctrine manual, they focus on 1 Corinthians 11-15:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scripture-roundtable-132-new-testament-gospel-doctrine-lesson-34-keep-the-ordinances-as-i-delivered-them/     Read more

2015-07-22T09:11:40-06:00

    Luke 13:18-21 Compare Matthew 13:31-33; Mark 4:30-32   The plain and obvious point of these two little parables is that the Kingdom of God begins small, but will grow remarkably.   We get to choose whether or not we want to grow with it, and whether we want to be part of it.  That’s all.     Read more

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