My high school physics and chemistry are soooooooo out of date:   https://www.sciencenews.org/article/physicists-find-signs-four-neutron-nucleus   Thanks to David Wills, in Australia, for calling this to my notice.     Read more

    For those who may still not grasp the depth of the evil represented by ISIS, here’s a new glimpse:   http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-execution-video-shows-british-four-year-old-isa-dare-blowing-up-car-with-prisoners-inside-a6866626.html   For an eyewitness account of what life is like in ISIS’s capital of Raqqa, Syria, see here.     Read more

    A genuinely brilliant and definitely thought-provoking article by David Blankenhorn, with whose “Malta Forum” I’ve had some memorable meetings over the years:   http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/02/10/trumps-america/     Read more

    My latest Deseret News assault on civility and rationality has now appeared:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865647428/The-Book-of-Mormon-wasnt-what-they-expected.html     Read more

    In August 2011, Professor Steven C. Harper presented these remarks to the annual FAIR (now FairMormon) conference:   http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/fair-conferences/2011-fair-conference/2011-four-accounts-and-three-critiques-of-joseph-smiths-first-vision     Read more

    Today’s reading, 2 Nephi 23, is equivalent to Isaiah 13.   In the first instance, it’s an oracle predicting the destruction of Babylon — though it’s certainly not difficult to see the divine judgment upon historical Babylon as representing the future divine judgment upon the world as a whole at the end of time.     The Babylonians, who would be responsible for the conquest of the southern Hebrew kingdom (Judah) and for the so-called Babylonian captivity of the Jews,... Read more

  1.   “Former US Senator Speaks of Religious Freedom’s Invaluable Contribution to America”     2.   “Elder Oaks speaks at Johns Hopkins: Religious freedom essential for free, prosperous society”     Read more

    Let go of your plans.  The first hour of your morning belongs to God.  Tackle the day’s work that he charges you with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it. . . . And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly... Read more

    I’m simultaneously delighted and dismayed to report that Jeff Bradshaw, the Interpreter Foundation’s to-this-point indispensable vice president, has been called with his wife to serve the Lord, commencing this summer, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa Mission.   Jeff intends to continue his involvement with Interpreter, but, very plainly, it will be at a reduced level of intensity for the next while.   Those of us who have been content to depend upon his remarkable (and... Read more

    By handing Donald Trump a huge victory and otherwise muddling the Republican presidential waters, New Hampshire has put The Donald back into a dominant position for the party’s nomination.   Governor John Kasich has practically lived in New Hampshire for the past weeks and months.  He took a distant second in New Hampshire and he would probably be a decent president, but it’s doubtful that he has the organization, the funding, or the personal appeal to do especially... Read more