This is your one-stop shop for all your Hamblin-Jenkins needs:   Jenkins 11   Hamblin 19:  Why Methodology?   Jenkins 12:  Still No Evidence   Hamblin 18:  Why No Inscriptions?   Jenkins 13:  Short Comments   Jenkins 14:  On Faith   Jenkins 15   Hamblin 19:  Place Names (Emblem Glyphs)   Just for the record:  I’m more and more unimpressed with Professor Jenkins, both as regards his snarky tone and as regards substance, where he’s clearly out of... Read more

    Nice:   http://blog.chron.com/mormonvoice/2015/06/mormon-helping-hands-day-city-of-houston-recognizes-mormon-volunteers/   If we’re going to be known — and we are — this is among the kinds of things that I would like us to be known for.   Posted from Newport Beach, California     Read more

    Some comfortable food faddists need to examine the consequences, in the real world, for real people, of their uninformed zealotry:   http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/06/25/gmo-right-to-know-movement-takes-food-off-of-plates-of-hungry-in-africa-asia/   Posted from Newport Beach, California   Read more

    A friend has given me permission to share something that he wrote in response to the SCOTUS decision in Obergefell v. Hodges:   For those of you who support gay marriage or who think we should just move on, I would like to enlist your support in defending institutions like BYU that have an Honor Code regarding marriage and sexual behavior. I’ve included below quotes by gay marriage advocates calling for the removal of federal funding from schools... Read more

    “Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.” Jack Kerouac, describing a California sunset in On the Road   Like Antaeus, who regained his strength and was healed by touching the earth, I need, from time to time, to come home to California.  I think that I’ve only once gone... Read more

    As we move inexorably toward what seems to be a very poor nuclear deal with Iran, it’s important (if sobering and, probably, in the current political situation, useless) to consider one of Iran’s most potent non-nuclear weapons:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420445/quds-force-other-iran-threat   Posted from Salt Lake City, Utah   Read more

    My thanks to Steve Densley for bringing this item, from a British barrister whom he knows, to my attention:   http://religionlaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/us-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-and.html?m=1     Read more

    The Supreme Court decision compelling all federal, state, and local government entities to recognize a right to same-sex “marriage” came down on Friday, and I’ve already seen one high-profile call (on Time Magazine‘s website) for stripping churches of their tax-exempt status:   http://time.com/3939143/nows-the-time-to-end-tax-exemptions-for-religious-institutions/   I confess to being just slightly surprised.   I had expected that we would wait until Monday for such a call.   In other news, I’ve seen specific demands for Brigham Young University to... Read more

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/06/28/rachel-dolezal-race-not-social-construct-column/29207125/     Read more

    Martin Tanner and Bruce Webster join in conversation for this 128th scripture roundtable posted by the Interpreter Foundation.  Their conversation is centered on 2015 Gospel Doctrine lesson 30, which treats Acts 10-15:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scripture-roundtable-128-new-testament-gospel-doctrine-lesson-30-god-is-no-respecter-of-persons/     Read more