It sometimes surprises people, but BYU has been happy to provide a place for Muslim worship on campus for as long as I can remember.  Not everybody expects that from a university that’s very much owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865678667/BYU-and-other-Utah-schools-seek-to-answer-the-call-for-Muslim-prayer-space.html     Read more

    http://www.space.com/36607-mars-giant-impact-lull-late-heavy-bombardment.html     Read more

    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865678617/Do-college-campuses-put-students-faith-at-risk-For-Mormons-not-so-much.html     Read more

    I would encourage those planning to denounce it to first read the brief:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865678608/Mormon-history-stars-in-legal-brief-on-Trump-travel-ban.html   Criticizing it for saying things that it doesn’t actually say and attacking it for making arguments that it doesn’t actually make won’t make a favorable impression here.   Thanks in advance.     Read more

    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.  If people all over the world . . .  would do this, it would change the earth.” William Faulkner (1897-1962)   Read more

    A cogent discussion of a very important subject:   https://www.iclrs.org/index.php?pageId=1&contentId=1&blurbId=77207     Read more

    Some interesting listening that’s available via the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/lds-perspectives-podcast-vanity-prayers-with-leta-greene/     Read more

    This is awfully cynical and quite untrue about women.  But it’s largely true about translation (certainly in any cases of literary translation), and it’s pretty funny:   “Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.” Yevgeny Yevtushenko     Read more

    This comment, from a great American novelist, seems to me directly appropriate both to the Mormon idea of inspiration and to the Mormon ecclesiastical practice of consultation within councils:   No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)     Read more

    Ben Shapiro makes a good point here, I think:   “Science vs. Science™!”     Read more