A podcast interview with Brian and Laura Hales: Episode 37: Tough Questions about Mormon Polygamy – Brian and Laura Hales Posted from Le Chesnay, France Read more
A podcast interview with Brian and Laura Hales: Episode 37: Tough Questions about Mormon Polygamy – Brian and Laura Hales Posted from Le Chesnay, France Read more
Not everybody will agree with her specific examples, but she makes a reasonably good and important general point: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-22/why-scientific-consensus-is-worth-taking-seriously Posted from Le Chesnay, France Read more
A very interesting article about developments beyond Mormondom: http://religionandpolitics.org/2017/05/23/the-book-of-mormon-gets-the-literary-treatment/ Posted from Le Chesnay, France Read more
Charles de Gaulle bestrides the twentieth-century history of France like a colossus. He was the leader of the Free French Forces during the Second World War, the head of the provisional government of liberated France from 1944 to 1946, the founder of France’s “Fifth Republic,” and the nation’s president from 1959 to 1969. The country’s main airport is named after him, as is the most important plaza of Paris. He was, to put it mildly, a personality. Here are a... Read more
A new discovery suggests that, contrary to common notions, Africa isn’t the evolutionary home of humankind: “Scientists find 7.2-million-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans” However, one scientist cautions that speculations based upon the new discovery should be . . . well, cautious: “Did Humans Evolve in Europe? A New Discovery Fuels the Debate.” Posted from Le Chesnay, France Read more
Jeff Lindsay reports on an interesting argument from the pages of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture: http://mormanity.blogspot.fr/2017/05/another-week-another-new-semitic.html Remember that all articles in Interpreter are offered to you entirely free of cost. (You’re welcome, though, to donate. Interpreter is free, but it costs money to produce it.) Posted from Le Chesnay, France Read more
President Trump called the perpetrators of the Manchester attack “losers.” That seems to me, frankly, the kind of insubstantial thing that a teenager might say to express hostility and anger, but it also seems to reflect a poverty of vocabulary. The British prime minister described the attack as “cowardly.” But that seems to me clearly false. Whatever else he might be, a suicide bomber doesn’t appear to be especially “cowardly.” There are lots and lots... Read more
I’ve just been reminded of this useful post, by Neal Rappleye: http://www.studioetquoquefide.com/2013/10/creating-list-of-standard-works-on-book.html#more Since its writing, some new items have been making a case for their own inclusion in the list. I, for example, would probably add the still-ongoing work of Royal Skousen and Stanford Carmack regarding the language of the English Book of Mormon, as well as Brian Stubbs’s recently-published research on evidence for Semitic and Egyptian elements in Uto-Aztecan languages. It’s indirect, but, if he’s right, it’s exceedingly... Read more
Thanks to Neal Rappleye for calling attention to a new article by Joseph M. Spencer: http://www.studioetquoquefide.com/2017/05/new-paper-on-isaiah-in-book-of-mormon.html Posted from Pontorson, Normandy, France Read more
We visited both the German military cemetery and the main American military cemetery in Normandy a few days back. The latter, as our guide that day rightly pointed out, is — given its nature as a cemetery — a palpably life-affirming and magnificently beautiful place. Yesterday, we returned on our own to the visitors center at the American cemetery. And I have to admit that I was shocked, and surprised by my shock, at seeing the scowling visage... Read more
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