Another article on the subject:   Trump’s Mormon Problem   I love the article’s last paragraph.   By the way, with this new fellow, Evan McMullin, entering the presidential race as a kind of third-party candidate, some have noticed that he’s a Latter-day Saint.   And the reaction hasn’t always been positive.  Over on the Breitbart website, which has been an absolutely party-line Trumpist outlet for many months now, some of the Trumpist commenters have denounced the Mormon... Read more

    I’ll be speaking this Sunday, 14 August, at the Oslo Ward on Hekkveien (near Carl Berners plass [Carl Berners Plaza]).   I don’t have a more precise address at the moment, and I don’t know the exact time.  Probably (I’m guessing) around 7 PM.   When I know more, I’ll tell more.  And, I expect, they’ll be announcing more of the details in Oslo-area church meetings that day.  So, if you’re in church there this Sunday and are... Read more

    I think it would be difficult to argue that, post-Obergefell, advocates of gay rights have been notably gracious in victory.  Pretty plainly, dissenters are to be marginalized, made pariahs, if not altogether pummeled into submission:   http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/17251009/big-12-urged-lgbt-advocacy-groups-not-admit-byu-expansion-school   Should any school engage athletically with Brigham Young University?  Under any circumstances?  Should BYU enjoy academic accreditation?  Should companies hire believing Latter-day Saints?  Should decent people have anything whatever to do with Mormons?  And, come to think about it, what about... Read more

    “On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim.”   “Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.”       Read more

    “Trump leads Clinton in Utah; Libertarian Johnson surging”   However, for those who, like me, can vote for neither The Donald nor Clinton Inc., there may now be yet another alternative:   “BYU grad launches last-minute campaign for president”   “BYU grad set to launch Hail Mary bid for the presidency”   “Evan McMullin Press Statement: ‘It’s Never Too Late to Do the Right Thing”   “Independent Candidate Evan McMullin Opens Up to NR”   Read more

    A very interesting interview with the outspokenly atheistic Nobel-laureate physicist Steven Weinberg:   http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150301-aristotle-archimedes-einstein-darwin-ptolemy-razi-ngbooktalk/   Incidentally, the 1999 Nobel Prize for Chemistry went to the Egyptian-American Ahmed Zewail of the California Institute of Technology (who, sadly, died just last week), the 2015 Chemistry prize was shared by the Turkish-American Aziz Sanjar of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to the quite devout Anglo-Pakistani Muslim Mohammad Abdus Salam of Cambridge and... Read more

    Science is a set of disciplined approaches to a certain set or kind of topics, not a dogmatic overall worldview that’s to be passed down without change or challenge from generation to generation:   http://westerndigs.org/12000-year-old-camp-found-in-utah-may-have-experts-adjusting-their-theories-archaeologist-says/     Read more

    Every time Dr. Royal Skousen and/or Dr. Stanford Carmack makes a presentation or publishes something arguing for the presence of Early Modern English in the Book of Mormon, some critics instantly begin to mock them for advocating a wacky ghost-committee translation theory, a theory that is usually said to involve William Tyndale.   It is, say these critics, utterly astonishing that anybody would propound or believe so stupid and so desperate a theory.  Mind-boggling. Absurd.  Ridiculous.  Indeed, some hyperventilating... Read more

    As the Sunday School instructional calendar for 2016 moves toward the famous (or infamous) Book of Mormon “war chapters” in Alma, it may be an especially good time to call attention to this blog, which belongs to the Mormon military historian Morgan Deane:   http://mormonwar.blogspot.com   He gave a very stimulating presentation at the 2016 FairMormon conference last week.     Read more

    “If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.” Russell Kirk     Read more