The latest installment of my weekly Deseret News column:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865649689/Thinking-about-religion-and-science-Thursday-through-Sunday-afternoon.html?pg=1   This one is partially time-sensitive.     Read more

    When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.  (Proverbs 29:2)     Read more

    Desperate times, desperate actions?   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432570/donald-trump-married-couple-launches-movement-keep-trump-supporters-having-sex     Read more

    Peggy Fletcher Stack’s take on the passing of Stephen Webb, in the Salt Lake Tribune:   http://www.sltrib.com/news/lds/3640037-155/mormon-scholars-pay-tribute-to-late     Read more

    You may or may not be aware that the Interpreter Foundation not only publishes a journal and posts scripture roundtable discussions, but also issues books.  Here are the volumes that have already been published:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/books/   And I’m pleased to say that I now have, in my hot little hands, a copy of the newest Interpreter volume, Cosmos, Earth, and Man, edited by David H. Bailey, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, John S. Lewis, Gregory L. Smith, and Michael... Read more

    I really wish that I could hear this lecture tomorrow afternoon, at BYU’s Wheatley Institution, in which the speaker will contend that America is, as a matter of fact and contrary to many predictions and some perceptions, not growing more secular:   http://wheatley.byu.edu/events/individual.cfm?id=202   Unfortunately, I’m scheduled to speak at precisely the same time, somewhere on the fourth floor of the BYU law building.  My topic is religious freedom in the Islamic world, and I’ll be addressing the... Read more

    Taylor Halverson offers another helpful item for students and teachers in the Gospel Doctrine classes of the Church: http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/jacob-1-4-seek-the-kingdom-of-god/     Read more

    http://www.ldsliving.com/Elder-Holland-Answers-Questions-from-a-Missionary-Who-Returned-Early-Due-to-Mental-Problems-in-Personal-Video/s/81515?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=email     Read more

      http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/food/1.707688   Haaretz is Israel’s oldest daily newspaper.     Read more

    Or, in other words, are people in Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming doomed?   http://www.wired.com/2016/03/think-can-drive-fast-enough-escape-erupting-volcano/     Read more