Full disclosure:  I’m not a fan of The Donald.   “Donald Trump has flip-flopped so much that Stephen Colbert hosted a Trump vs. Trump debate”   “Trump: Some Questions Iowa Evangelicals Need to Ask”   “Good-Bye, Reagan Revolution”   “Nikabrik’s Candidate”   “Donald Trump: Thin-Skinned Tyrant”   “Grow Up, Donald Trump”   “Just Because Donald Trump is ‘Anti-PC’ Doesn’t Mean We Should Celebrate His Vulgarity”   Posted from Clovis, California     Read more

    Even if you haven’t been keeping up with my little project here, even if you have no intention of doing so, take two or three minutes and renew your acquaintance with today’s reading, 2 Nephi 12, which is a citation (with slight but perhaps significant variation) of Isaiah 2.  (It may also be significant that the Book of Mormon never cites Isaiah 1, which many scholars believe is an “introduction” to the book of Isaiah that was attached to it only... Read more

    ‘And what of regrets?  I shall live with them.  I shall accept my regrets as part of my life, to be numbered among my self-inflicted wounds.  But I will not endlessly gaze at them.  I shall allow the memories to prod me into doing better with those still living.  And I shall allow them to sharpen the vision and intensify the hope for that Great Day coming when we can all throw ourselves into each other’s arms and... Read more

    An interesting, if slightly longish, account of the planet Vulcan, which was once thought to circle around the Sun inside the orbit of Mercury:   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/hunt-for-vulcan/   Does anybody out there know who finally solved the riddle?  And how?   Posted from Clovis, California     Read more

    Today’s reading, 2 Nephi 11, is very brief.  But it’s significant.   Why?   Because, in it, Nephi announces that he has seen the Savior, and that his brother Jacob and the prophet Isaiah have also seen the Savior, and he declares that the three of them stand together as witnesses.   One of the marvelous claims of the Restoration is that modern apostles and prophets (and others) have seen, and can stand as witnesses of, Jesus Christ.  ... Read more

    This is one that I would very much like to see:   http://www.religionnews.com/2016/01/27/faithful-viewer-biopic-black-preacher-toast-sundance/   Posted from Clovis, California   Read more

    I’m a bit late, but it’s still Friday.   And, being Friday, it’s time for a new piece from Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/samuel-the-lamanite-christ-and-zenos-a-study-of-intertextuality/   Posted from Clovis, California     Read more

    You may have visited the place.  Almost certainly you know it as the place where Indiana Jone encounters the Holy Grail, the chalice from the Last Supper of Jesus.   Professor Finlayson, whom I’ve known for years, is doing really good work there:   https://byuphoto.exposure.co/restoring-petra   Posted from Salt Lake City, Utah     Read more

    Celebrate diversity!   Because, if you don’t, we’re coming after you.   http://abovethelaw.com/2016/01/is-homophobia-going-to-cost-this-law-school-its-accreditation/   Posted from Salt Lake City, Utah     Read more

    ‘“There is no possible idea,” Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, “to which the mind of man can’t supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.”’ Charles Williams, War in Heaven   Posted from Salt Lake City, Utah     Read more