I have slightly mixed feelings about this article, but, on the whole, I quite like it:   The Coming Revolution Inside of Mormonism   I don’t know whether the judgmentalism in church is as bad as the author describes it.  I feel little if any of it myself — I claim no moral credit for that; it’s simply something I’ve never felt and can’t really imagine feeling it (which may result from a personality defect as much as... Read more

    “There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.” Malala Yousafzai     Read more

    I try, usually quite successfully, to avoid politics on the Sabbath.  This item, however, which was brought to my notice by Steve Oscarson, is so appalling to me that I feel that I have to speak up now:   https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrympleii/meet-the-alt-right-mormons-inside-the-churchs-vocal-white?utm_term=.vpKOyBYP4#.gwdxvqNmV   Besides, it seems to me to go far beyond politics, and certainly far beyond partisan politics.  I cannot begin to express how repulsive I find it.  I’m ashamed that such an article could even be written.   Here... Read more

    In this thirty-minute podcast, which is available via the Interpreter Foundation website and which is ideal for Sunday listening (though entirely appropriate for any other day of the week as well), the highly accomplished writer and historian Larry Morris is interviewed regarding the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/lds-perspectives-podcasts-the-three-witnesses-with-larry-morris/     Read more

    It has been a painfully and frustratingly slow process, but the Italy Rome Temple is now solidly on the path toward its eventual dedication.  Here’s a link to two new videos about yesterday’s placing of the statue of the Angel Moroni atop the temple.  I’m particularly fond of the second one:   http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/rome/video/       Read more

    Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Reinhold Niebuhr     Read more

    Tuesday, 28 March 2017   “Defending the Faith: Introducing the Interpreter Foundation”   Joseph Smith and his claims have been under attack since even before the publication of the Book of Mormon and the founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  In this lecture, I’ll discuss ongoing efforts to defend those claims and to argue for their truth.  “Be ready always,” wrote the apostle Peter, “to give an answer to every man that asketh you... Read more

    This article from a couple of days ago, written by Tad Walch of the Deseret News, includes some very clarifying statistics that should help to put the threat of foreign terrorism into proper perspective:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865676334/Unbelievably-international-terrorism-strikes-at-Utahns—again.html     Read more

    An article that some of you will enjoy and appreciate:   At Global Summit, Elder Soares Advocates for Peace Through Religious Freedom     Read more

    An interesting short article by Tariq Malik, the managing editor of Space.com, whose name might cause some to fear him as a terrorist who wants to kill all of us:   http://www.space.com/36188-spotless-sun-has-no-sunspots.html     Read more