Having been on the road a lot today, I’m a bit behind.   But it’s Friday!   So, of course, a new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/theres-the-boy-i-can-trust-dennison-lott-harris-first-person-account-of-the-conspiracy-of-nauvoo-and-events-surrounding-joseph-smiths-last-charge/#more-9003   It’s by Dr. Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw, who is now Elder Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa Mission.   Great reading for the weekend.     Read more

    I’m told that I hate Dr. John Dehlin, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., and seek to destroy his character.  And, since everybody knows that I’m a viciously hateful person who never writes anything substantive but who specializes, instead, in mean-spirited personal attacks, there’s considerable plausibility to that claim.   In this case, however, it’s not true.  I’m posting about Dr. John Dehlin now (and over the past two or three days or so) not because I care much about what he’s... Read more

    Dilbert: And we know mass creates gravity because more dense planets have more gravity. Dogbert: How do we know which planets are more dense? Dilbert: They have more gravity. Dogbert: That’s circular reasoning. Dilbert: I prefer to think of it as having no loose ends.  Scott Adams   Posted from Logan, Utah     Read more

    http://www.npr.org/2016/07/14/485875624/mormons-uneasy-with-trump-make-a-question-of-reliably-red-utah?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=religion   I’m disappointed in the rhetoric attributed to Janalee Tobias in the article.  “Tobias recently described herself on Facebook as a Trump Mormon for ‘Time and All Eternity,'” it says, and she’s quoted as describing those who won’t vote for Mr. Donald Trump as “traitors.”  Such extreme and divisive rhetoric is among the very many aspects of Trumpism that make it morally impossible for me to support it.   Incidentally, in the photograph that accompanies the article,... Read more

    One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple.  (Psalm 27:4)   We drove up with a friend today to Cache Valley, where, after enjoying a bite to eat at the Huhot Mongolian Grill in Logan, we participated in a session at the Logan Utah Temple.   It’s the... Read more

    The latest installment of my weekly Deseret News column to blight America’s cultural and intellectual landscape:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865658006/The-Book-of-Mormon-and-linguistic-evolution.html     Read more

    On 12 June 2016, an apparently non-apologetic website called “Infants on Thrones” posted an interview with John Dehlin (by “Glenn, Randy, Heather, and Matt”) entitled “John Dehlin: The Reluctant Atheist.”  (Thanks to Gregory L. Smith, a careful student of John Dehlin’s public statements, for bringing this to my notice.)   I haven’t listened to the recording, which is over two hours long.  I don’t have the time to do it right now and, frankly, will probably never find the... Read more

    http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/07/egypt-tensions-christians-copts-killings-sisi.html#ixzz4EMH3eost     Read more

    This year’s FairMormon conference has managed to sneak up on us.  But it’s coming soon:   http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/fair-conferences/conf16a   And you don’t want to miss it.     Read more

    “It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.”  Marilynne Robinson, Gilead     Read more