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

    It’s time to clear out of my files some of the political items that I’ve marked over the past month, before they become completely obsolete.   Here’s an article from nearly a month ago (before, for example, the sudden fall of Michael Flynn) on a subject that still bears watching:   “Bannon Is Given Security Role Usually Held for Generals”   And another, also on Steve Bannon:   “Steve Bannon Carries Battles to Another Influential Hub: The Vatican”... Read more

    If Jeff Lindsay could be cloned, the world would be an even better place:   http://mormanity.blogspot.com/2017/02/evidence-at-last-many-aspects-of-john.html   How he manages to do it all from distant Shanghai continues to amaze me.  I can’t even do it while well situated in Utah Valley.   Posted from Hilo, Hawaii     Read more

    Thanks to Zander Sturgill for calling this extraordinarily interesting item to my attention:   http://www.space.com/35790-seven-earth-size-planets-trappist-1-discovery.html   Posted from Hilo, Hawaii     Read more

    This writer makes a very good point that is worthy of consideration:   http://us.blastingnews.com/news/2017/02/irrational-fear-of-shari-ah-law-what-of-jewish-halakha-courts-or-mormons-001488941.html   Posted from Hilo, Hawaii     Read more

      “If you look at a map, you see that Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere.  It’s 17 hours of straight flying from London.  It’s very far away, and sometimes you feel as if you’re on another planet.  But I like that.  Also, that’s ideal for writing.” Paul Theroux   Posted from Hilo, Hawaii     Read more

        I’ve been told by several people that they don’t much like the island of Hawaii, the confusingly named “Big Island” of the island chain and state of Hawaii.   They think it’s boring.     And, it’s true, Hawaii lacks the abundant sand beaches of Maui and Oahu.  (I suppose it’s not old enough to have developed them yet.)  The Kona coast of Hawaii cannot claim anything remotely like the lush tropical vegetation of Kauai, “the Garden... Read more

    Potentially interesting correlations between the Book of Mormon and recent excavations by Professor Takeshi Inomata at Ceibal, in Guatemala:   http://bookofmormonresources.blogspot.com/2017/02/75-bc.html   Posted from Hilo, Hawaii     Read more

    Chances are that you grew up with a lot of silly notions about the history of the warfare between science and religion.   I know that I did.   It turns out that stories like that of the trial of Galileo and of the Tennessee school teacher John Scopes and his (monkey) trial are a whole lot more complicated in reality than most propagandistic retellings of them let on.   (I’m looking at you, Inherit the Wind.)  The... Read more

    I published this column almost precisely a year ago:   “Remembering the history of the LDS Church on the Hawaiian Islands”   Remarkable things happened here in these islands.   Posted from Hilo, Hawaii     Read more