“Lou Dobbs was rude,” write Suzanne Lucas, “and now he faces the Mormon Mafia.”   http://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/when-someone-is-rude-to-you-respond-like-a-mormon.html   I’ve always thought that these were some of the funniest and most cynical verses in the Bible:   Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for... Read more

    A destroyed supertanker or two could seriously impact the economy of the United States and its allies:   “Scare at sea: Attack on gas supertanker reignites debate about maritime self-defense”   It would have been really nice to have had a serious presidential race this year.     Read more

    One atheist reader of my blog likes to portray me as somebody who hates and fears science, and who uses it only to elicit “wows.”   He’s profoundly wrong on the first accusation, of course, but, with his second, he comes several light years closer to the truth than he commonly does:   I do think that much about the universe and the natural world is perfectly astounding.   This article might supply you with one or two more... Read more

    This article is, to put things mildly, a mixed bag.  But it’s interesting:   http://www.herald.co.zw/latter-day-saints-in-empowerment-drive/     Read more

    As we approach the first weekend of the holiday season, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture offers you some good, thoughtful, weekend reading:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/the-parable-of-the-benevolent-father-and-son/   Enjoy!     Read more

    “In the early years of this [the twentieth] century, the most highly respected diplomat of all the great powers was the German ambassador in London.  He was clearly destined for great things — to become his country’s foreign minister, at least, if not its federal chancellor.  Yet in 1906 he abruptly resigned rather than preside over a dinner given by the diplomatic corps for Edward VII.  The king was a notorious womanizer and made it clear what kind... Read more

    You really can’t make this stuff up:   http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/about-those-blacks-for-trump-signs-794480707719     Read more

    They were, for example, sometimes thought to cause disease.   http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/vampires-europe-new-england-halloween-history/     Read more

    Well, the traditional burial place, anyway:   http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/jesus-tomb-opened-church-holy-sepulchre/   In his article “Revisiting Golgotha and the Garden Tomb,” my friend and BYU colleague Jeff Chadwick raises some very persuasive arguments against the Holy Sepulcher as the right place.     Read more

    This is an effective and well-earned slap-down:   “Dennis Prager and Caller on Mormonism, Values, Theology and Mitt Romney”   There are some pauses.  Keep listening to the end.     Read more