http://www.seeker.com/hubble-frontier-fields-lensing-astronomy-universe-ancient-galaxies-2250824258.html     Read more

    A four-part essay by Ahmad Corbitt, with whom I’ve been privileged to have several interactions over the years:   Part 1:  “Revelations in the Summer of 1978”   Part 2:  “Seeing as We Are Seen”   Part 3:  “He Denieth None That Come unto Him”   Part 4:  “Till We All Come in the Unity of the Faith”     Read more

    “In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), Letters and Papers from Prison     Read more

    On Wednesday night, as I’ve mentioned here and here, I met with Congressman Jason Chaffetz and a small group of Utah Muslim leaders for a discussion of their concerns.  Much of the discussion, unsurprisingly, centered on President Trump’s recent executive order regarding entry into the United States by people from seven predominantly Muslim nations.   On Thursday night, Representative Chaffetz held a town hall that turned out to involve mostly chanting and yelling:   http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/02/10/chaffetz-town-hall-booing-do-your-job-chant-jnd-vstop-orig.cnn   I must... Read more

    Another inspiring new Church video (roughly eight minutes long) that nicely accompanies the story of Julia Mavimbela:   https://history.lds.org/article/learning-to-listen-saints-in-soweto?lang=eng     Read more

    An article in the Idaho Statesman:   http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article131896504.html   You can read more about the author here:   http://mormonscholarstestify.org/3188/heidi-beus-naylor     Read more

    And they’re beautiful, too:   http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a25163/three-new-uranium-related-minerals-discovered-in-utah/     Read more

    This is a wonderful and moving story, told in a new eleven-minute video from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:   https://history.lds.org/article/break-the-soil-of-bitterness/one-womans-quest-for-healing?lang=eng   I love the Gospel.  If we will only let it work, its power can transform us.     Read more

    We spent several hours yesterday and several hours today filming interviews on behalf of the Interpreter Foundation with Richard Lloyd Anderson, the premier authority on (among other things) the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon.  I consider him one of the most significant scholars in (as well as on) the history of Mormonism.  He’s nearing 91 years of age, and is still at work daily on what he describes as a “documentary history of Oliver Cowdery.”   If... Read more

    The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)     Read more