I’m sure that they don’t intend to chain the people of Africa to perpetual poverty.  But western liberal self-righteousness often comes at the cost of others.  And this article suggests that it could happen yet again:   How to Starve Africa: Ask the European Green Party     Read more

    http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/muhammad-ali-orrin-hatch-224132     Read more

    The latest incarnation of the biweekly Hamblin/Peterson column for the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865655858/Similarities-in-Hebrew-and-Hindu-high-places.html     Read more

    My wife and I spent a significant portion of the day at the Joseph Sr. and Polly Knight 2016 Family Reunion, which is being held at the LDS Institute on the campus of Utah Valley University (within long-walking distance of my home).   The opening speaker was Paul Edwards, the editor of the Deseret News.  I was very pleased to learn that he, too, is a member of the Knight family.  And, by the way, he gave a... Read more

    It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.  (Eric Hoffer)       Read more

    This is the kind of story that I love to hear:   https://www.ldscharities.org/videos/born-in-the-storm     Read more

    A rim of mountains runs along the western side of the penin­sula. These mountains are cut by many valleys, each of which is known as a wadi (pronounced wah-dee), and many of these wadis serve as caravan routes.[1] Plains, usually narrow, are found along the coasts. Oases, where a spring furnishes enough water for at least some vegetation, are found especially along the caravan routes in northern Arabia. No large lakes exist in Arabia, and there is only... Read more

    Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture published not merely one new article today, but two.  (Or, depending upon how you evaluate the second article, at least one and a half.  Or maybe one and a quarter.  Or perhaps 1.1 articles is as far as you’re willing to go.  Anyway, more than one.)   Here’s the second article:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/many-witnesses-to-a-marvelous-work/#comment-20554   Interpreter was founded approximately 204.5 weeks ago.  We have now published at least one new article every Friday... Read more

    Today’s chapter, Alma 24, offers one of the most moving stories in the Book of Mormon — that of the Anti-Nephi-Lehites, who are, literally, faithful unto death.   A reader points out, quite correctly, that they’re not pacifists in the strict sense of the word.  (I’m not one myself.)  But their refusal to take up arms here, even in self-defense, would certainly resonate with the pacifists that I have known, and it resonates with me.   The very... Read more

    It being Friday, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has yet again published a new article and made it available to the public at absolutely no cost:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/turning-to-the-lord-with-the-whole-heart-the-doctrine-of-repentance-in-the-bible-and-the-book-of-mormon/   We hope that you’ll enjoy this offering.     Read more