“The evidence for Jesus’ resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things:  First, it is a very unusual event.  And second, if you believe it happened, you have to change the way you live.” Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928-2014)           Read more

    By almost sheer chance, I just came across this wonderful blog entry that I recommend to all and sundry:   http://www.jrganymede.com/2015/09/21/the-sheltered-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-462572   It makes a point not altogether unrelated to one that I myself attempted to make in a Deseret News column written back during the days of the Mitt Romney presidential campaign:   “Are Mormons spared from reality?  Hardly.”     Read more

    I’m hoping that the loutish, feral Leftists who showed up at Middlebury College in Vermont last week — about whom I’ve posted previously — will be punished for their violent denial of freedom of speech to Charles Murray:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445541/charles-murray-middlebury-protest-turns-violent     Read more

    The invaluable Robert Boylan posts an important reminder, and a neat method — by the way — for distinguishing certain shoddy and morally casual hacks from serious writers on Mormonism:   http://scripturalmormonism.blogspot.com/2017/03/did-brigham-young-claim-three-witnesses.html     Read more

      http://www.astronomy.com/news/2017/03/volcanoes-in-space     Read more

    A short while ago, we were privileged to meet and help host Safi Kaskas and his wife Eman during their visit to Utah.  This interesting five-minute KSL Television interview resulted from that visit:       Read more

    The news is bad.  But it’s not always bad:   “Muslims ‘First on Scene’ Helping Injured Christians in Islamist Attacks in Egypt: Priest”       Read more

    شر عيوبنا اهتمامنا بعيوب الناس “The worst of our faults is our interest in other people’s faults” Imam ‘Ali b. Abi Talib (AD 599-661)   Read more

    As we approach Easter, there will likely be more and more articles like this one.  There always are.   I pretty much share Bart Ehrman’s attitude on this subject:  I regard Jesus mythicists as, on the whole, a bunch of tendentious cranks and conspiracy theorists.   Here are three columns that I’ve written regarding the topic:   “An agnostic’s argument that Jesus did exist”   “He was the son of God, and ‘one of us'”   “The evidence for Jesus... Read more

    Are you offended and infuriated all the time?  If not, that may simply prove that you’re a horrible person.   Here are some good recent reasons to be outraged:   “They Crossed that Bridge When It Came”   “City Installs ‘Female’ Traffic Signals for Equality, Gets Slammed for Stereotyping Women as Skirt-Wearing”   Are you showing enough righteous anger?  Have you sufficiently demonstrated how very, very sensitive you are to injustice?  Could you be manifesting still more outrage?   Resolve... Read more