A nice piece from Peggy Fletcher Stack:   http://www.sltrib.com/home/5536656-155/dust-and-tears-rain-and-realization   I’m sorry that I’m linking to it just a bit late for Pioneer Day.   Posted from Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii     Read more

    “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” Lewis B. Smedes, Reformed Protestant theologian (d. 2002)   Posted from Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii     Read more

    As usual, Jonah Goldberg offers a humorous but also serious and balanced conservative view of the subject:   http://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/449747/donald-trump-defenders-rationalizing-failure   Posted from Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii     Read more

    The basic geology of Maui is pretty obvious:  An older volcano to west-northwest, now much eroded, and a new and larger volcano to the south-southeast, connected by a plain formed by the confluence of their lava flows.   The larger, younger volcano to the east-southeast, Haleakalā (“house of the sun”), rises to a height of 10,023 feet (3,055 meters) above sea level.  More dramatically, perhaps, it measures five miles (eight kilometers) from seafloor to summit, making it one of the world’s tallest mountains.... Read more

    I can’t help but wonder whether there’s a relationship between these social trends and the rise of the religious “nones”:   https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/young-men-giving-up-on-marriage-women-arent-women-anymore?utm_content=bufferd83b3   See, in this context, “Faith and family depend upon each other.”   Posted from Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii     Read more

    Some have suggested that, even if chiasmus exists in an ancient text, it would almost certainly be destroyed in the process of translation.  A post from Book of Mormon Central considers that issue:   https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/can-chiasmus-survive-translation   Posted from Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii     Read more

    From now on, after reading this article, you may decide to take only sponge baths.  But it offers some serious warnings about real threats as well as just bit of practical advice (though you may wish that it had given more).  If you’re headed to the beach, or a public pool, or a hot tub, you may want to read it:   Forget sharks: 7 things in the water swimmers should actually fear   Posted from Kaanapali, Maui,... Read more

    I like this blog entry, by a Catholic blogger named Joe Heschmeyer, very much:   http://shamelesspopery.com/muslims-jews-christians/   There are a few points at which a Latter-day Saint might not quite agree with the analysis, but, on the whole, I think it’s entirely sound.   See also “‘Allah’ is not pagan term — it means ‘God’.”   Posted from Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii     Read more

    “‘There is no possible idea,’ Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, ‘to which the mind of man can’t supply some damned alternative or other.  Yet one must act.'”  Charles Williams, War in Heaven   Posted from Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii     Read more

    A brief but important post from Tarik LaCour:   http://tarikdlacour.blogspot.com/2017/07/understanding-apologetics.html?spref=fb   I myself have tried to make the same patently obvious and unquestionably true point on several occasions, without much success.  Maybe Brother LaCour will have more luck.   Posted from Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii     Read more