http://www.theonion.com/video/top-5-ways-prevent-heart-disease-55253?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds   Posted from Waikoloa, Hawaii     Read more

    This is a great missionary story, courtesy of Steve Smoot (whose life I’m said — not by Steve Smoot, but by an obsessive anti-Mormon screwball who amuses himself with inventing and anonymously publicizing such claims — to have utterly ruined):   http://www.plonialmonimormon.com/2017/02/whose-fruit-was-desirable-to-make-one.html   Posted from Waikoloa, Hawaii     Read more

    On the Interpreter Foundation website, an intriguing interview with Brant A. Gardner:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/lds-perspectives-podcast-lehi-in-america-with-brant-gardner/   As usual, just so you’re not confused:  The recording begins, seemingly, in the middle of things.  Don’t worry.  That’s really where it starts.  It will make sense within a minute or so.   Posted from Waikoloa, Hawaii     Read more

    “My reasons for seeing the universe as meaningful lie in what I perceive as its built-in necessities.  Monod stressed the improbability of life and mind and the preponderant role of chance in their emergence, hence the lack of design in the universe, hence its absurdity and pointlessness.  My reading of the same facts is different.  It gives chance the same role, but acting within such a stringent set of constraints as to produce life and mind obligatorily, not... Read more

    It’s extraordinarily to sad to watch a wonderful country fall into the grip of a tyrant, and to see him destroying it.  But that seems to be what’s happening in Turkey, one of my favorite places on the globe:   http://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.1105/full/   Posted from Waikoloa, Hawaii     Read more

    http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2017/02/16/why_america_needs_marvel_superhero_kamala_khan_now_more_than_ever_110114.html   Posted from Waikoloa, Hawaii     Read more

    “The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean.”   That’s what Mark Twain called the “Sandwich Islands” — now known as “Hawai’i” — after spending four months exploring them in 1866 as a reporter for the Sacramento Union newspaper. He wrote twenty-five letters about the Islands, and, for most Americans of his time, they provided their first information about Hawaii.  Twain’s fame as a writer may actually have begun with those letters.  Many years thereafter, he reminisced:  ... Read more

    For the Interpreter Foundation’s 198th scripture roundtable, Shon Hopkin, Martin Tanner, and Bruce Webster joined in a discussion of Doctrine and Covenants 20, 21, 27, and 115, which form the basis of the 2017 Gospel Doctrine lesson 9:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scripture-roundtable-198-doctrine-and-covenants-and-church-history-lesson-9-the-only-true-and-living-church/   For comparison purposes, Bryce Haymond, Mike Parker, and Daniel Peterson discussed the same sections in a discussion posted by the Interpreter Foundation in 2013:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scripture-roundtable-13-dc-gospel-doctrine-lesson-9/   Posted from Waikoloa, Hawaii     Read more

    These are the first two articles in a projected series of seven:   “A Partner in the Cause of Peace”   “A Bridge Between the Strong and the Weak”   Posted from Waikoloa, Hawaii     Read more

    A noble story, worth being remembered:   http://www.whig.com/20170213/new-book-tells-how-quincy-offered-refuge-to-fleeing-mormons-in-1839#   I look forward to reading the book.   Posted from Waikoloa, Hawaii     Read more