In honor of today’s holiday, I offer, once again, one of my very favorite online videos, which is only about three minutes long.  Watch it and laugh:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbu_KLZlCIU     Read more

    Let me be the first to extend my very best wishes to anti-Mormons everywhere on their special day!     Read more

  http://jboor.net/?page_id=919   Be sure that you follow along with the lyrics.  Otherwise you may miss some of the references.     Read more

    I’m not at all displeased to see this sort of thing happening — and to see it happening where it happened:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/14th-annual-interfaith-music-tribute-hosted-in-tabernacle-on-temple-square     Read more

    Now here’s a strikingly revisionist article.   https://aeon.co/opinions/galileo-s-reputation-is-more-hyperbole-than-truth   According to this historian of science, Galileo was a very good scientist, but scarcely the world-transforming titan that he’s been made out to be.  (If he had to choose somebody for that role during the same era, it would be the German astronomer and mathematician Kepler, rather than the Italian Galileo.)   Galileo, the author suggests, may have been elevated to his current status because he was a useful weapon... Read more

    A roughly twelve-minute video with Elder Brent H. Neilson of the Seventy:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org     Read more

    Steven Densley, Daniel Peterson, Martin Tanner, and McKay White discuss Mosiah 18-24 (= 2016 Gospel Doctrine lesson 19) in the 163rd scripture roundtable posted by the Interpreter Foundation:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scripture-roundtable-163-book-of-mormon-gospel-doctrine-lesson-19-none-could-deliver-them-but-the-lord/     Read more

    Five attempts to explain the appeal of Trumpism:   “Trump and the Death of Reason”   “Does Social Connectedness Explain Trump’s Appeal?”   “Are Trump’s Conservative-Media Flacks Preparing to Jump Ship?”   “Donald Trump: An Eruption of Secularism”   “A New Theory of Trump”   But is Trumpism beginning to lose its glow?  Is the Trumpist juggernaut faltering?   “Trump is Losing in Wisconsin.  But Why?”   “The Way Forward for the #NeverTrump Movement”   One group, though,... Read more

    In today’s reading, Mosiah 18, the focus shifts from Abinadi, who’s been put to death by King Noah and his priests, to Alma.   The chapter is set at a place called “the waters of Mormon,” a place to which the editor, Mormon, attaches a particular sanctity:   And now it came to pass that all this was done in Mormon, yea, by the waters of Mormon, in the forest that was near the waters of Mormon; yea, the place... Read more

    “Well, that’s the problem, isn’t it? They haven’t had a war here for such a long time. Without a good war, where do you get your moral standards from? Everything goes to pot in peacetime. People eat what they like. You see them wandering about with cheese on their bread and then a great smear of bacon fat on top! How many men are there in that town down the road? How many horses? Nobody knows. They’ve never... Read more