During our recent time in the Kirtland, Ohio, area, we spent several hours filming in the John Johnson home, which is one of my favorite places there:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865667805/Picturing-history-Exterior-of-the-John-Johnson-Home-Hiram-Ohio.html   Posted from Richmond, Virginia     Read more

    Utah’s Republican Senator Mike Lee, one of the most admirably vocal members of the Never -Trump movement, takes an optimistic view of what might be accomplished under the presidential administration of President-Elect Donald J. Trump:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442450/donald-trump-conservatives-principled-populism-framework-working-together   Posted from Richmond, Virginia     Read more

    If there hasn’t been a mistake here — or, alternatively, if scientists aren’t missing something — this could be really, really big.  Fundamentally big:   http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/11/23/how-physics-falls-apart-if-the-emdrive-works/#6589a7a64b0c   Posted from Richmond, Virginia     Read more

    From the account of Dr. George G. Ritchie’s near-death experience given in his book Return from Tomorrow:   “What did you do with your life? It seemed to be a question about values, not facts: What did you accomplish with the precious time you were allotted? How much have you loved with your life? Have you loved others as I am loving you?  Totally?  Unconditionally? I have shown you by the life I lived.  I showed you by the death I... Read more

    College administrators are, very often these days, a feckless and pusillanimous lot.   Hampshire College, in Massachusetts, seems to be led by such folks:   “Massachusetts college stops flying US flag on campus for now”   Posted from Richmond, Virginia     Read more

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    In response to my blog entry from last night on “Blessing God after Eating One’s Fill,” Zander Sturgill kindly reminded me of this characteristically well-done repackaging of the idea by Book of Mormon Central:   https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/why-did-alma-bless-and-thank-god-after-eating   Posted from Richmond, Virginia     Read more

    My Thanksgiving column for 2016 has appeared:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865667934/We-have-more-cause-for-thanksgiving-than-any-previous-generation.html   I wish everyone out there a happy Thanksgiving Day.  And even if today isn’t Thanksgiving in your country (or the Erntedankfest, or whatever your language may call it), I wish you a wonderful day and hope that you will take the opportunity to reflect on the many remarkable blessings that have come to you.   I’ll tell you one thing that I’m grateful for, being where I am... Read more

    As a limited-government conservative, I’m actually not altogether unsympathetic to Jefferson’s point of view on this matter:   http://www.realclearbooks.com/articles/2016/11/23/why_jefferson_said_no_to_thanksgiving_171.html   Still, I really like Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation:   http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/thanks.htm   And I can’t bring myself to condemn as constitutionally inappropriate the prayer that was spoken on the radio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 6 June 1944, in connection with the D-Day invasion at Normandy:       Read more

  Just in case you have some down time this holiday weekend, I’d like to recommend for your reading a thought-provoking article, published a few years back by Kevin Barney, that some of you might have missed:   https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V41N04_133.pdf   Posted from Richmond, Virginia     Read more