Say it ain’t so!   https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/06/17/donald-trumps-claims-about-radical-jihadists-are-very-wrong/?tid=a_inl   Well, of course, it actually ain’t so.   Since we’re talking about Mr. Donald Trump. Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England     Read more

    The latest installment of the Hamblin/Peterson Deseret News column:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865656880/John-Knox-and-the-Scottish-Reformation.html   Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England     Read more

    Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.  Samuel Taylor Coleridge   Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England     Read more

    For any Angelenos out there, and for any who might be visiting Los Angeles in the foreseeable future and who like Mexican food — as I will be and do — here’s a tip for some potentially good eating with a Latter-day Saint angle:   http://www.latimes.com/food/la-fo-esdras-ochoa-mexicali-salazar-20160610-snap-story.html   Sic et Non — your one-stop on-line venue for political punditry, religious discussion, science news, scriptural commentary, theater talk, travel reports, movie reviews, unalloyed truth, penetrating insight, restaurant recommendations, and sheer self-assured pretentiousness.   Posted... Read more

    Is everything peachy keen now?   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437129/obergefell-v-hodges-one-year-anniversary   I’m a stickler for procedure, because I believe that constitutional rules and limitations are absolutely essential for our safety:  If you ignore them, even to do something that you deem good at the time, you’re establishing a precedent that can eventually be exploited to legitimize evil.   That’s why I think that even those who favor redefining marriage should have some silent qualms about just how the redefinition was accomplished.... Read more

    An interesting and no doubt controversial perspective, with which I’m strongly inclined to agree:   https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/06/23/dcs-catholic-archbishop-people-ask-me-why-religion-matters-today-i-tell-them-wed-be-a-mess-without-it/?wpisrc=nl_faith&wpmm=1   Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England     Read more

    Some of you might find this interesting, if you’re not already aware of it:   http://www.sltrib.com/lifestyle/faith/4037654-155/dalai-lama-meets-with-two-high-level   I apologize for the hat that he’s wearing in the photograph that accompanies the Tribune article.  And I seek your forgiveness on his behalf.  I’m sure that he was unaware that it would give offense to decent people around the world.   Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England     Read more

    I simply can’t pass by Alma 36, today’s reading, without mentioning the seeming presence in it of an intentionally constructed chiasm.   If you don’t know about the literary device known as chiasmus, or if you’re unaware of its occurrence in Alma 36, I suggest that you browse through this concise introduction:   http://www.jefflindsay.com/chiasmus.shtml   Heck, I suggest that you take a look at the article even if you do know about chiasmus in Alma 36, because the presence... Read more

    http://scripturalmormonism.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/neas-and-sheum-in-book-of-mormon.html   Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England     Read more

    Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture published a second article today:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/beauty-way-more-than-skin-deep/   We wish you a great weekend!   P. S.:  Despite the title and the photo of the author, his article isn’t actually autobiographical.   Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England     Read more