I’m late in calling attention to it — for the perfectly valid reason that I had no Internet access over roughly the past thirty hours, either because I was on the road between Orem, Utah, and Cokeville, Wyoming, or because I was in a location in Cokeville without access to WiFi. But I published an article in Meridian Magazine yesterday that some might find perhaps only slightly objectionable: “Why Pioneer Day is a Celebration for Church Members Across... Read more
New just yesterday on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conference Talks: In the Visions of the Night: The Human Brain and Divine Revelation, originally presented by Brant A. Gardner on Saturday, 12 March 2016, at the 2016 Second Interpreter Science & Mormonism Symposium: Body, Brain, Mind, and Spirit. *** Hal Boyd is always interesting, and this recent article for the Deseret News especially caught my notice: “The winds of change: The Middle East is in... Read more
Earlier today, one of the commenters on this blog — I hope that he won’t mind my describing him as a non-believer — posted the following: When faced with an unresolvable uncertainty, the correct response is agnosticism, not to embrace whatever hope or bias you have. You can want or hope, but the moment you let your desire outweigh your objectivity, you’re going to quickly find ways to reinforce it. No-one’s perfect at avoiding this, but that doesn’t... Read more
Two new items went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation today: Come, Follow Me — New Testament Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 31, July 24 — 30: Acts 16–21 — “The Lord Had Called Us for to Preach the Gospel” Once again, Jonn Claybaugh provides a concise but helpful set of notes for students and teachers of the Church’s “Come, Follow Me” curriculum. The New Testament in Context Lesson 31: “The Lord Had Called Us for to... Read more
I posted here a few days ago about Dante and the salvation of the unevangelized. (see “Catholic theology made no such provision”), based upon a reading of Prue Shaw’s Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity.. Here is another passage from Dr. Shaw’s superb book that is relevant to the topic: When Dante makes his confession of faith to Saint Peter in the Paradiso, he offers a grammatical gloss on the mathematical conundrum of three-yet-one: e credo in tre persone... Read more
Yesterday, I read Barry R. Bickmore, ““Show Them unto No Man”: Part 1. Esoteric Teachings and the Problem of Early Latter-day Saint Doctrinal History,” in BYU Studies 62/1 (2023): 29-60. Dr. Bickmore holds a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech (more formally, from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University). He is a professor of geological sciences at Brigham Young University, where he specializes in mineralogy, petrology, hydrogeology, environmental geology, and geochemistry. He has, however, also had a longstanding and... Read more
Jenet Jacob Erickson , who earned her doctorate in family social science from the University of Minnesota, is an associate professor in religious education at Brigham Young University, where she teaches the Eternal Family (Rel 200) course and the Introduction to Family Process (SFL 160) course for the School of Family Life. She is a research fellow of both the Wheatley Institute and the Institute for Family Studies and has been a columnist on family issues for the... Read more
Two new review-essays appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. They are: “A Truly Remarkable Book,” written by Louis C. Midgley Review of John Gee, Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, And Encourage Faith (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2020). 313 pages. Abstract: Saving Faith is a truly excellent book, designed especially for families concerned about their children. It is also a book appropriate for those getting ready to serve as missionaries, or for... Read more
I want to share with you a couple of passages from Brian Miller, “Does Cosmology Support Cosmic Design?” in Ann Gauger, ed., God’s Grandeur: The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design (Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 2023), 34-46. Brian Miller, who earned a B.S. in physics with a minor in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in physics from Duke University, is currently the research coordinator for the Center for Science and Culture at the... Read more
Conference Talks: “All Abraham’s Children: A Genetic Perspective” is the name of a presentation that was given by Dr. Ugo A. Perego on Saturday, 12 March 2016, as part of 2016’s Second Interpreter Science & Mormonism Symposium: “Body, Brain, Mind, and Spirit.” Dr. Perego’s presentation is now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at no cost. Apart from spending time in the swimming pool with a portion of our posterity, our most significant effort of the... Read more
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