This is a group that my wife and I have tried to support:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865679581/Glenn-Beck-and-Tim-Ballard-team-up-in-Operation-Underground-Railroad-video-in-Thailand.html   Posted from Cairo, Egypt     Read more

    The latest installment in the continuing Hamblin-Peterson column for the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865679866/The-Protestant-Reformation-was-launched-five-centuries-ago-this-year.html   Incidentally, we’ve been discussing the idea (almost a certainty, even this early) of a Cruise Lady tour to the Oberammergau Passion Play in 2020.  One possibility is that it might include Luther’s Wittenberg.  Would that interest you?   Posted from Cairo, Egypt     Read more

    Very curious:   https://phys.org/news/2017-05-latest-fast-radio-mystery-source.html   Posted from Cairo, Egypt     Read more

This is a pretty big deal. Read more

    The handwriting appears to be on the wall.  Behold the next avenue of attack in the war against genuine diversity:   https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/05/pro-lifers-get-out-of-medicine   Posted from Cairo, Egypt     Read more

    We spent much of the morning in the vicinity of the pyramids of Giza.  Some went into the Great Pyramid.  All of us rode on camels or in horse carts around the pyramids for about an hour.  We also walked through the valley temple next to the Sphinx and then devoted some time to looking at (and, in some cases, buying) papyri at the Merit Papyrus Institute.   Following an excellent Egyptian grilled lunch, we spent a couple of hours in... Read more

    “For any one who sees Egypt, without having heard a word about it before, must perceive, if he has only common powers of observation, that the Egypt to which the Greeks go in their ships is an acquired country, the gift of the Nile.” Herodotus (d. ca. 425 BC)   Posted from Cairo, Egypt     Read more

    Another Friday has arrived, and Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has published another article:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/joseph-smith-monogamist-or-polygamist/#more-10422   We wish you a safe, productive, and satisfying weekend.   Posted from Cairo, Egypt     Read more

    This is an extremely interesting question:   http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/2017/05/10/alien_civilization/#.WRYafWVy7dl   Frankly, I’ve sometimes wondered whether we on Earth might be under some kind of (divine) celestial quarantine — and for reasons that aren’t difficult to imagine.   Posted from Cairo, Egypt     Read more

    My wife and I spent our first four married years living in greater Cairo, Egypt, and we have many happy memories of the place.  We’ve been back several times, but, until today, hadn’t returned for a few years.  (Hosni Mubarak was still the president when we last visited, and he was plainly grooming his son to succeed him as president.)   This morning, we left Jerusalem, traveled to Ben Gurion Airport, and flew into Cairo.   It still amazes... Read more