It being Friday, there’s a new article from Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture: http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/a-brighter-future-for-mormon-theology-adam-s-millers-future-mormon/ Posted from Cedar City, Utah     Read more

    I’m worried about Turkey.   http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/07/21/turkey-and-erdogan-here-comes-real-caliphate.html   All around the world, it seems, we’re seeing the reemergence of the Strong Leader.   This is deeply disheartening.     Read more

    I’ve been a faithful Republican since I was old enough to vote.  In fact, as some may know, my brother permitted me to pull the lever for Senator Barry Goldwater in 1964, so I’ve been a conservative Republican for a very long time.   But no longer.   My lifelong political party has been seeking to divorce me for many months now, and, tonight, I’ve granted the party’s request.  I’m now unaffiliated.   This saddens me.  I never thought... Read more

    http://www.space.com/33497-dark-matter-search-comes-up-empty-lux-detector.html   I wrote a column that played off of “dark matter” and “dark energy” a while back:   “Materialism isn’t what it used to be”     Read more

    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865658408/BYU-climbs-from-No-15-to-No-5-in-this-years-Best-Colleges-in-America-by-Money-Magazine.html     Read more

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/07/20/sorry-mitt-romney/OsRRuxUlldZanzewxhuSTN/story.html     Read more

    It was a bit late going up online (although it appeared right on schedule in this morning’s print edition), but the latest installment of my Thursday column has now appeared:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865658437/Two-theological-accounts-of-evil.html     Read more

    Ted Cruz was booed, insulted, and criticized for his convention speech last night.   I’ve never been happier with him.   “I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father,” Senator Cruz commented afterwards.   The recently anointed Leader of the Republican Party, Mr. Donald Trump, attacked Senator Cruz harshly and repeatedly throughout much of the Republican primary campaign, including mockery of Mrs. Cruz’s physical appearance and several accusations that Senator... Read more

    A very nice Deseret News column by a friend who has frequently participated in the Interpreter Foundation’s scripture roundtables:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865656437/How-to-enjoy-the-peace-that-passeth-all-understanding.html   I offered some quite different but slightly related thoughts back in April, when I knew that Senator Bennett was very ill:   “Taking a ‘Leap of Faith’ in Bennett’s book on the origins of the Book of Mormon”   And, for the record, Senator Bennett’s son in law Nate Oman is, far and away, one of the best students I’ve... Read more

    http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-newvistas-mormon-utopia/     Read more