Here’s a brief little video connected, I think, with the online roll-out of a new film about Joseph Smith’s “First Vision“:     Posted from Monterey, California     Read more

    A potentially interesting book by an always interesting Turkish Muslim writer:   https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/books/review/interfaith-healer-the-surprising-role-of-jesus-in-islam.html?_r=0   Posted from Monterey, California     Read more

    According to this article, some earthly organisms could survive there:   https://researchfrontiers.uark.edu/2017/is-anything-tough-enough-to-survive-on-mars/   The question is, were there any there to begin with?  And then, of course, there’s the possibility of interplanetary “contamination.” Posted from Monterey, California     Read more

    “You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say ‘no’ to other things.  And the way you do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside. The enemy of the ‘best’ is often the ‘good.'” Stephen R. Covey   Posted from Monterey, California Read more

    I think that I failed to call attention to this piece by Drs. Taylor Halvorson and Brad Wilcox:   http://www.ldsliving.com/What-Sariah-and-Moroni-Actually-Mean-Insights-into-Book-of-Mormon-Names/s/84416   Posted from Monterey, California     Read more

    A number of critics have found fault with the artwork that routinely appears in LDS Church magazines, visitor centers, and so forth.  Although finding fault appears to be their favorite pastime, they sometimes have a legitimate complaint in this regard.  (They push it too far, of course, when they allege some vast conspiracy to mislead members and investigators — but pushing things too far is another of the favored tools in their limited arsenal, so that’s scarcely surprising.)... Read more

    One of the most valuable independent organizations in Mormondom is the Mormon Historic Sites Foundation.  I’m a big fan.  (Join up!)   And one of the most valuable people in Mormondom is Rick Turley.   It’s good, in the light of those two facts, to see this:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865674804/Mormon-Historic-Sites-Foundation-honords-Richard-E-Turley-Jr.html   Posted from Monterey, California     Read more

    In case you haven’t seen it, here’s link to a new video — about 6.5 minutes long — from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints about the very beginning of the Restoration, the First Vision of the Prophet Joseph Smith:   https://history.lds.org/story/first-vision   Posted from Monterey, California     Read more

    Unimaginably vast distances, unimaginably far back in time:   http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2017/03/04/strange_new_nebula_is_missing_its_light_source_110206.html   Posted from Monterey, California   Read more

    https://sojo.net/articles/i-m-christian-and-interfaith-educator-america-needs-islam   It’s a pity that the writer knows some Muslims.  That defect seems to have clouded her judgment.   Posted from Monterey, California     Read more