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    The important Baptist voice of Dr. Russell Moore:   https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/religious-freedom-for-non-christians-too   We differ theologically, Dr. Moore and I, but I completely agree with him on this issue.  As should you.     Read more

    I’m a great fan of two remarkable organizations headquartered on the campus of Brigham Young University:  the Wheatley Institution and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS).  In the areas that interest me, they are, nowadays, far and away the most intellectually interesting and adventurous operations here.   ICLRS is in the midst of putting on its “Religious Freedom Annual Review.”   I was involved in a wedding at the Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple today, and with... Read more

    If you’ve been thinking about it, and thinking about coming with me, you might want to make your decision fairly soon:   For further information, just go to this site and choose “Search by Headliner.”       Read more

    The latest installment of my relentless campaign against logic, common sense, and basic human decency has now appeared in the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865684302/The-existence-of-evil-as-evidence-for-God.html     Read more

    This new half-hour-long podcast is available for free (of course) through the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/lds-perspectives-podcast-the-genesis-group-and-the-priesthood-ban-with-members-of-the-genesis-group/   We hope that you enjoy it.     Read more

    It would be a real drag, as it were:   http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2017/07/06/if_earth_was_50_larger_we_might_be_stuck_here.html   But, in the end, we’re not absolutely earthbound.     Read more

    “When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.”   “In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”    Alex Haley (1921-1992)           Read more

    If this site isn’t utterly bogus, I’m a chinchilla:   https://en.nametests.com/test/result/peterson/–_112227223/index_new/   Really.  Try your own surname.  Then make up a really improbable fictional surname.  (I’ve tried Idiot, thus far.  And Gizmobrain.)   If you believe that this site is giving you historically reliable information, please send your check for $100.00 to me, and maybe I’ll send you something really good and worthwhile in return.  Trust me!     Read more

    Since the tragically premature death of Andrew Breitbart, but most especially since its unfortunate emergence as the loudest cheerleader for Trumpism, Breitbart News has scarcely been my preferred news source.   This article is interesting, though:   http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/07/04/colombia-celebrates-first-three-way-gay-marriage/   Today, on what plausible grounds can anybody object to such a novel institution as a legally recognized homosexual threesome?  To borrow the language of one of the fairly hostile critics who respond to my blog, how dare we deny people the... Read more