http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-23/antimatter-explainer/7487354?source=realclearscience.com   Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England     Read more

    And, by “brief,” I mean really brief.  It’s less than three minutes long:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/video-history-lds-charities   But members of the Church can justly be gratified by what their church is doing.   Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England     Read more

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has issued a video — featuring, among others, Elder Jeffrey Holland — about depression:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/mormon-message-like-a-broken-vessel   It’s all to the good, I think, that we’re discussing such things openly and frankly now.  Perhaps some who suffer from this terrible problem will be helped.   Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England     Read more

    The latest installment of my Thursday column for the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865656707/The-challenge-posed-by-Jesus.html   Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England     Read more

    One of William Wordsworth’s most famous poems is “I wandered lonely as a cloud,” which was inspired by a field of daffodils on the shore of Ullswater, here in England’s legendary “Lake District”:   I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.   Continuous as the stars... Read more

    As we’ve driven through the countryside, we’ve seen huge banners draped across hay bales screaming “Vote Leave!” and equally large banners elsewhere reading “Vote Remain!”  Newspaper headlines blare advice to vote one way or the other.   The polls are very close, with a slight lead — 51% to 49% in the most recent survey that I’ve seen — held by the side that wants to remain in the European Union.  But the vote could easily go either way.... Read more

    As a way to eventually win their party back, should Republican donors keep their money from the Trump campaign?   That, anyway, is what George Will advises:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436966/donald-trump-republicans-dump-trump-withholding-donations   And, as it happens, it’s what I’m already doing.   It’s unlikely, of course, that my vast financial resources would have made any difference to the ultimate outcome of the 2016 presidential race, but, still, I can make my little statement.   And if more than a few traditionally... Read more

    I cannot begin to do justice to today’s reading, Alma 34.  So I won’t try.   But I’ll mention a couple of quick points:   1.   Our Evangelical Protestant critics like to suggest that we believe that we’ll earn our way into heaven.  And, unfortunately, some of us have spoken sloppily, and have given the impression that we do believe such a thing.  It’s not true, of course — there would be little point in the Atonement... Read more

    Coming over from Holy Island, Lindisfarne, to Cumbria yesterday, we chose a slower road in order to visit Hadrian’s Wall — another area of Britain that I’ve long wanted to see but that, in more trips to the United Kingdom than I can count, extending over the better part of five decades, I never have.     The Roman emperor Hadrian, who also left his indelible mark on Jerusalem (which he severely damaged during the Second Jewish Revolt, barring Jews from... Read more

    https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/what-is-the-nature-and-use-of-chariots-in-the-book-of-mormon   Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England     Read more