An interesting challenge to Jeremy Runnells:   http://mormonpuzzlepieces.blogspot.com/2016/10/question-for-jeremy-runnells-ces-letter.html   Although I haven’t had much to say about the “Letter to a CES Director” — I did, at the request of others, address it in summary fashion at the 2014 FairMormon conference — I should state, for the record, that I have a very, very, very negative opinion of it.  In my view, it’s a distressingly shoddy piece of work, though it’s unquestionably been sadly effective in destroying the faith of a... Read more

    Evan McMullin’s running mate:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441175/mindy-finn-evan-mcmullin-vice-presidential-running-mate   And this:   “Wow: New Rasmussen poll of Utah has Evan McMullin one point behind Trump for the lead”     Read more

    A fun new music video from BYU’s female a cappella group, Noteworthy:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865664536/UTubers-BYUs-Noteworthy-returns-with-cover-of-Vivir-Mi-Vida.html   It’s a very nice distraction from the current presidential campaign.     Read more

    It’s an exciting time to be a science-fearing, reason-hating religious obscurantist and young-Earth creationist such as I’m occasionally alleged to be:   http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/alien-fossils-nasa-exploring-mars-2020-space-science/       Read more

    It’s occasionally a shock to people to discover that the Great Pyramid (like the dozens of other pyramids standing on the west bank of the Nile from Giza to Saqqara) are pretty much solid stone, without many rooms, without large chambers.   But there may perhaps be more “hollow” places in the Great Pyramid than we have previously known about:   http://www.seeker.com/mysterious-cavities-secret-chambers-great-pyramid-giza-2049012211.html   Maybe.     Read more

    I hope that this story is true:   http://www.thisismarvelous.com/mans-generosity-inside-dennys-ended-changing-mothers-life/     Read more

    A single author?  Multiple authors?   Something to consider:   http://www.churchistrue.com/blog/book-of-mormon-wordprint-analysis/             Read more

    A single author?  Multiple authors?   Something to consider:   http://www.churchistrue.com/blog/book-of-mormon-wordprint-analysis/     Read more

    I’ve already posted about this issue:   “On voting for Mr. Trump because of the Supreme Court”   “It’s the Supreme Court, stupid!”   Among my arguments is this:  In order to have his hypothetical conservative judicial nominees actually confirmed, Mr. Trump needs a Republican Senate to confirm them.  But he’s openly at war with a number of the Senate’s conservative Republicans, thus undercutting his own claim to care about judicial appointments.   To which, as further evidence... Read more

    “Evangelicals,” says Protestant writer Matthew Taylor, “should take a lesson from Mormons this election season”:   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mormons-consciences-have-put-white-evangelicals-to_us_5802d33de4b0985f6d15724c     Read more