Don’t miss it!   https://bookofmormoncentral.org/content/moroni-day-2016     Read more

    “The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” Marcus Aurelius       Read more

    “ISIS Imposes a Partial Ban on Burqas”   I can understand, and am not unsympathetic to, Daniel Pipes’s reasoning on burqas, above.   From what I’ve seen of them, though, it doesn’t seem to apply to burkinis, which — at least in the ones that I’ve seen photos of — don’t appear to permit any substantial room for hiding weapons or explosives.  (No more than there would be in a more typical dress or pantsuit.) Meanwhile, here’s an interesting... Read more

    Unfortunately, there is no seriously pro-life presidential candidate in the 2016 race:   http://www.lifenews.com/2015/05/18/medical-expert-confirms-unborn-children-feel-excruciating-pain-during-abortions/     Read more

    But I’m told that it didn’t irritate the people who were being helped in the Baton Rouge area much at all:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865662113/In-our-opinion-Praising-a-rising-tide-of-vounteers.html?pg=all     Read more

    I would like to call your attention to an outstanding blog produced by Kristine Wardle Frederickson, who has participated on numerous occasions in Interpreter scripture roundtables and who serves as a contributing editor for the Interpreter Foundation:   http://moralsocialactivism.com   In particular, I want to mention a new article that she’s posted, entitled “Do Christians Belong in the Public World?”:   http://moralsocialactivism.com/do-christians-belong-in-the-public-world/     Read more

    http://www.newshub.co.nz/world/4-year-old-begins-gender-transition-in-australia-2016090121?utm_source=email+marketing+Mailigen&utm_campaign=News+9.13.16&utm_medium=email   I confess to being somewhat bemused at the concept of a four-year-old child “considering gender changes.”   I wonder if this child is also “considering” career choices, sex partners, political preferences, investment vehicles for retirement, and possible religious affiliations.     Read more

    I first noticed the prominent Southern Baptist leader Robert Jeffress back in 2007, I think, when he was an outspoken critic of Mitt Romney’s Mormonism.  Now, of course, he’s an ardent backer of the great Christian thinker and statesman Rev. Donald J. Trump.   Now, obviously, Miranda Blue is a leftist who wouldn’t approve of my failure to endorse homosexual acts, either.  But the fact remains that Pastor Robert Jeffress is a real piece of work:   http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/anti-gay-anti-catholic-anti-mormon-pastor-accuses-hillary-clinton-hate-speech... Read more

    Twice, yesterday, we heard from friends about grievous personal losses.  In one case, they’re reeling from the sudden death of a brilliant, adult, but still relatively young daughter.  In the other, our friends mourn the passing of a three-year-old granddaughter who had suffered from health issues throughout her short life.   There are perhaps no experiences in this life that are more painful, and our hearts and prayers go out to them.  And yet there’s really nothing that we can... Read more

    “But the context of religion is a great background for doing science.  In the words of Psalm 19, ‘The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork.’  Thus scientific research is a worshipful act, in that it reveals more of the wonders of God’s creation.”  (Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Stanford University; 1981 Nobel laureate in physics)       Read more