An important blog entry on the Church’s official “newsroom” website:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/churches-social-problems-pew-research     Read more

    The morning began with something of a tag team presentation by Royal Skousen and Stan Carmack, offering a nice summary of their work on the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project.  There were some striking new details, and I got a kick out of the fact that several of Royal’s “conjectural emendations” — his suggestions of editorial changes to the Book of Mormon text, which have sometimes excited controversy — were actually already made by the Book of... Read more

    This week’s Thursday Deseret News column takes a quick look at some of the remarkable qualities of one of the most common and most essential elements in our everyday environment:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865659358/Water-is-a-wizard-of-changes.html     Read more

    I’m planning to be out on the Mediterranean during the second half of June next year.   Are you interested in coming along?     Read more

    This is probably another place where you wouldn’t want to accept long-term employment:   http://www.swri.org/9what/releases/2016/io-atmosphere-collapse-eclipse.htm#.V6LLWGW0zdl     Read more

    “The interesting thing about those who espouse various kinds of relativism: they all seem to end up by saying, essentially, that truth, perception, etc. are relative, except of course the truth they are passionately trying to get us to perceive. That is, they fail to apply their own relativism to themselves.”  John Lennox (Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford), God and Stephen Hawking, p. 64   Read more

    http://www.studioetquoquefide.com/2016/08/warfare-and-book-of-mormon-bibliography.html#more     Read more

    Thus far, two people have written to me in the light of the 2013 statement that I reposted here earlier today, seeking to know how and why, given the spiritual confirmation that I seem to claim for my Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, I eventually resigned from it.   As a matter of fact, I’ve answered that question already in my reposted statement:   Last month, amidst the continuing aftereffects and fallout of the events that took place within the... Read more

    http://vaviper.blogspot.com/2016/07/australian-sex-survey-asks-about-your.html   It’s exhilarating to live in an age of such rapid scientific progress!   (LGBTQIAPK is just so . . . confining.)     Read more

    Just a reminder that the eighteenth-annual FairMormon conference begins tomorrow and continues through Friday:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865658878/The-18th-annual-FairMormon-conference-is-next-week.html   You surely don’t want to be the only person on your block who didn’t attend and who, therefore, has no utterly no clue what people are talking about for the next several days.  Do you?     Read more