A really good paper by Blake Ostler and David Paulsen: http://blakeostler.com/docs/JSmith&ProblemofEvil.pdf Posted from Jericho, Palestine Read more
A really good paper by Blake Ostler and David Paulsen: http://blakeostler.com/docs/JSmith&ProblemofEvil.pdf Posted from Jericho, Palestine Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJR3k3duqnI On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand And cast a wishful eye To Canaan’s fair and happy land, Where my possessions lie. There generous fruits that never fail On trees immortal grow; There rocks and hills and brooks and vales With milk and honey flow. Chorus I am bound for the promised land, I am bound for the promised land O who will come and go with me I am bound for the promised land. Chorus I... Read more
A nice message: http://www.ldsliving.com/The-3-Simple-Words-My-Grandma-Brought-Me-from-the-Spirit-World/s/82666/?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=related Posted from Jericho, Palestine Read more
Oi veh. And, once again, with emphasis: Oi veh! Does this person have even the faintest idea what the Oriental Express was? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/05/03/entertainment-weekly-contributor-writes-movie-called-orient-express-and-i-dont-see-any-asian-people-on-here/?utm_term=.1fdc6bf6f94c I’m writing from what was, until quite recently, often labeled an “oriental” town. And yet, apart from a passel of Korean nuns who are fellow guests at our hotel, there are essentially no East Asians here. Posted from Jericho, Palestine Read more
Another early morning. We walked over and caught a boat ride out onto the Sea of Galilee (or, as it’s also known, Kinneret, or the Lake of Tiberias, or the Lake of Genessaret), where Eric Huntsman and I spoke, everybody sang, and a number of people danced. We disembarked at Nof Ginosar, where the famous “Jesus Boat” is housed, and went from there to Magdala, a site that I dearly love. (See here and here.) We... Read more
A short little essay that risks causing apoplexy in my scientistic readers: http://www.logicallyfaithful.com/10-things-science-cannot-do/ To them, there is nothing that can be done that science cannot do. If science can’t do it, it doesn’t exist. It’s “woo woo” nonsense. Which is, itself, woo woo nonsense. And pretty transparently so. Posted from Jericho, Palestine Read more
It’s interesting to learn about what Church leaders and members are doing, worldwide: http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/mormons-around-the-world-country-newsroom-websites-may-2-2017 Posted from Jericho, Palestine Read more
“The word Palestine always brought to my mind a vague suggestion of a country as large as the United States. I do not know why, but such was the case. I suppose it was because I could not conceive of a small country having so large a history.” Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad Posted from Jericho, Palestine Read more
A British voice weighs in. I think that he raises an interesting issue, though I’m not sure that I agree: http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2017/05/04/st-augustine-might-have-had-doubts-about-the-benedict-option/ Posted from Jericho, Palestine Read more
I think that Brian Stubbs’s work is potentially of fundamental importance. http://mormanity.blogspot.com/2017/05/linguist-john-s-robertson-reviews-brian.html Posted from Jericho, Palestine Read more