This blog entry out of Australia makes, I think, a very, very important point:   http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/samantha-johnson/when-i-became-a-mother-feminism-let-me-down/     Read more

    A Mormon voice that, to put it mildly, is deeply opposed to Mr. Trump’s recent executive order:   http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4909421-155/op-ed-we-dishonor-our-mormon-heritage     Read more

    Exceedingly difficult to imagine or visualize:   https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/Ancient-Signals-From-the-Early-Universe.html     Read more

    From the invaluable Jeff Lindsay:   http://mormanity.blogspot.com/2017/02/evaluating-book-of-mormon-claims-where.html     Read more

    I’ve spent several hours yesterday and today with Dr. Safi Kaskas and his wife, Eman Kaskas.  Natives of Lebanon who have lived for three decades in Saudi Arabia, they’re both pleasant and fascinating.  He has recently published a fresh English translation of the Qur’an that features comparative cross references to the Bible — the first time this has ever been done.   They will be speaking on the BYU campus on Monday at 11 AM:   http://kennedy.byu.edu/events/accepting-the-other/  ... Read more

    Attend the 14th Annual Book of Mormon Conference and be inspired and educated by faithful scholarly perspectives on the Book of Mormon.   What: The 14th annual Book of Mormon Conference. When: Saturday, March 18, 2017, 9:00 am – 5:30 pm Where: Utah Valley Convention Center ( 220 West Center Street, Provo, UT 84607) Sponsored by: Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum and Book of Mormon Central   Cost: $20 (includes a box lunch) Registration: https://bookofmormoncentral.org/content/register-for-bmc-conference More details, including speakers and topics: https://bookofmormoncentral.org/content/bmaf-2017... Read more

    I’ve loved this poem, by the English convert to Catholicism and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), since I first encountered it as a teenager in a high school English class:   Glory be to God for dappled things –     For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;        For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;  Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;     Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;        And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. ... Read more

    A nice and very short article by the much esteemed John Tvedtnes:   http://scripturalmormonism.blogspot.com/2017/02/john-tvedtnes-king-mosiah-and-judgeship.html     Read more

    Good listening for a Sabbath day — not quite forty minutes’ worth — on the Interpreter Foundation website:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/lds-perspectives-podcast-josephs-seer-stones-with-michael-hubbard-mackay/   An article about Joseph Smith as a seer (and about the seer stone) appeared in the October 2015 issue of the Ensign:   https://www.lds.org/ensign/2015/10/joseph-the-seer?lang=eng&_r=1   Don’t be dismayed that the recording seems to begin in medias res, in the middle of things.  That’s just the lead-in.     Read more

    An interesting summary of recent developments:   http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/6-shocking-new-discoveries-about-jesus-of-nazareth/     Read more