2017-05-29T10:30:11-06:00

    I notice that, very nearly five years after that legendary event, yet another fact-free discussion is underway on a virulently anti-Mormon message board in which uninformed anonymous commenters debate how to view John Dehlin’s successful effort to get the Brethren to end my amoral reign of terror at FARMS and the Maxwell Institute.  Speculation is piled upon speculation, resting upon incorrect assumptions.   This grew tiresome a very long time ago.  As I’ve pointed out many times before, neither John... Read more

2017-05-29T09:22:20-06:00

    A friend tells me that he’s heard that Church leadership in Edmonton, Alberta, is permitting local Muslims to use a stake center there — specifically, its Relief Society room — during the four weeks of the holy month of Ramadan for late night (10 PM) meals/celebrations to break the month-long daily fast.  It seems that the Muslims had no adequate place to meet.  Other churches were approached for help on the matter, but declined.  The local leaders thought it appropriate, though,... Read more

2017-05-28T21:55:44-06:00

    https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2017/26-may/news/uk/priests-and-imams-united-in-oldham-after-manchester-bomb-kills-locals       Read more

2017-05-28T15:31:20-06:00

    “Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.” Max Planck     Read more

2017-05-28T14:51:33-06:00

    A nice new five-and-a-half-minute video based upon a conference talk by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland:   https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2017-01-001-where-justice-love-and-mercy-meet?cid=HP_FR_26-5-2017_dPFD_fMLIB_xLIDyL1-A_&lang=eng     Read more

2017-05-28T10:04:50-06:00

    In this ten-minute video, you can actually see the real Stephen Smoot (online, at least) during his temporary return from exile in Toronto:   http://scripturalmormonism.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/the-real-book-of-mormon-translation.html   Incidentally, I realize that it may seem to many of you that Br’er Smoot is omnipresent.  However, I assure you that he’s not.  He really does currently spend several months a year in Canada — which, for some of my critics out there who may be puzzled by the reference, is an... Read more

2017-05-27T22:52:05-06:00

    Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Benjamin Disraeli     Read more

2017-05-27T15:43:34-06:00

    This is pretty funny, and pretty sad:   https://www.doctorportal.com.au/mjainsight/2017/19/dog-of-a-dilemma-the-rise-of-the-predatory-journal/   As it happens, I had a somewhat shady academic friend a number of years ago (not at BYU), who was something of an entrepreneurial type.  Every once in a while, hoping to gain favors from me (and/or from BYU), he would put me on the editorial board of some journal or other that he had started.  (None of them, I think, were money-making ventures.  He just liked to... Read more

2017-05-27T15:12:57-06:00

    The other day, I suggested that the adjective coward doesn’t really fit the suicide bomber in Manchester:   http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2017/05/concerning-manchester.html   But those who opened fire on an unarmed busload of Christian pilgrims in Egypt on Friday, killing twenty-nine and wounding many more, really do deserve description as, among many other contemptible things, cowards:   “Egypt shooting: ISIS claims massacre of 29”   (See also “Who are Egypt’s Coptic Christians?” and “Egypt Retaliates for Coptic Bus Massacre with Airstrikes on Libyan Terrorist... Read more

2017-05-27T13:14:53-06:00

    An interesting and provocative critique of the common wisdom:   http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/organic-farming-is-bad-for-the-environment/     Read more

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