2016-01-29T16:49:19-07:00

    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

2016-01-29T10:25:23-07:00

    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

2016-01-29T10:17:48-07:00

    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

2016-01-29T10:18:43-07:00

    ‘“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

2016-01-29T08:45:57-07:00

    Robert LaVoy Finicum, a rancher from Arizona and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was killed in Oregon the other day by federal and local law enforcement personnel.   http://heavy.com/news/2016/01/lavoy-finicum-dead-dies-rip-funeral-youtube-school-family-ammon-bundy-arrested-malheur-standoff-wife-jeanette/   I can’t really speak to the specific merits of the protest in which he and others engaged, nor can I comment on the circumstances of his death.  I expect and trust that there will be an investigation.   I’ll say this, though:... Read more

2016-01-29T08:31:46-07:00

    http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/01/27/nfl-player-new-side-project-getting-his-phd-in-math.html?intcmp=hpffo&intcmp=obnetwork     Read more

2016-01-28T23:49:27-07:00

    One of the most important and long-lasting acts of an American president is to nominate someone to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.   What kind of nominees would a President Trump send to the Senate for confirmation?   His enthusiastic support of government seizure of the property of little people for the benefit of large corporations probably affords one important clue.  (On that issue, see this article, published way back in April 2011, when... Read more

2016-01-28T22:47:49-07:00

      http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/historic-church-discovered-in-turkeys-nevsehir-could-change-history-of-orthodoxy.aspx?PageID=238&NID=94309&NewsCatID=375     Read more

2016-01-28T21:51:42-07:00

    http://www.popsci.com/biggest-solar-system-ever-found-is-very-very-big     Read more

2016-01-28T21:13:47-07:00

    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/430427/marco-rubio-iowa-surge-viral-video     Read more

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