It’s Friday.  So, once again, reflecting the monotonous regularity that is Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, a new article has appeared!   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/deuteronomy-1714-20-as-criteria-for-book-of-mormon-kingship/   Enjoy!     Read more

    This column, which I wrote a bit more than a year and a half ago, makes a point that I think needs to be reiterated yet again:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865632671/Book-of-Mormon-apologetics-and-scholarship.html   So I’m reposting a link to it.     Read more

    The article doesn’t mention that he’s a very devoted Latter-day Saint:   http://nypost.com/2017/02/20/this-man-freed-29-women-and-children-from-sex-trafficking/   On his Mormon side, see here:   https://deseretbook.com/t/author/timothy-ballard   I’ve been writing about this effort, and encouraging donations to it, for quite some time now:   http://ourrescue.org   Incidentally, in response to my recent blog post “‘Every person deserves to rest in peace’: American Muslims raising money to repair vandalized Jewish cemetery”, one of my Facebook “friends,” who appears to believe that no Muslim can... Read more

    What counts as a planet?  How many planets are there in our solar system?  What about Pluto?   A slightly crotchety response to such matters:   http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2017/02/24/planned_planethood_exposed.html     Read more

    Good Americans must resolutely oppose not only such violence but the hateful attitudes on which it feeds.   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/22/kansas-mosque-bomb-plot-muslims-hate-groups     Read more

    My latest Deseret News column is up:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865674010/O-thou-who-changest-not-abide-with-me.html     Read more

    Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons — increasingly women as well as men — spend a couple of years abroad as missionaries and return jabbering in Thai or Portuguese and bearing a wealth of international experience. Nicholas Kristof     Read more

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    What a wonderful story:   “I Was Blessed with a Gift”   Everybody has been given something, though, that is unique.  Or some assignment that has been given to nobody else.  We should try our best to find out where we are supposed to serve, where we can contribute something that only we can do.  It may be big.  It may be small.  Size doesn’t matter.   Posted from Honolulu, Hawaii       Read more

    This is a very encouraging story:   https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2017/02/21/every-person-deserves-to-rest-in-peace-american-muslims-raising-money-to-repair-vandalized-jewish-cemetery/?utm_term=.95e0b6f320f3   Posted from Honolulu, Hawaii     Read more