Here’s an exhibit that I would very much like to see, about specific places that I know well and dearly love:   http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/27/egypt-faith-after-the-pharaohs-review-british-museum   But, alas, I have no plans of getting to London while it’s there.   Dang.   And again, dang.     Read more

    “Reason is itself a matter of faith.  It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.” G. K. Chesterton      Read more

    Martin Marty is, very possibly, the most important Protestant church historian in America.  Thanks to Kevin Taylor for bringing his article to my notice:   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-marty/mormon-options-on-church_b_8392602.html     Read more

    Matthew 22:41-46 Mark 12:35-37 Luke 20:41-44 Compare Mark 12:34; Luke 20:40   The Jews of Jesus’ day expected a mortal messiah, of the lineage of King David (as Jesus was), who would deliver them from earthly bondage.  In these passages, he’s trying to get them to see that he’s much, much more than a political savior.     Read more

    Another help from Taylor Halverson for readers and teachers of the scriptures:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/james-exhort-and-encourage/     Read more

    This week’s Thursday Deseret News column hath appeared:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865640156/What-it-feels-like-to-be-a-Mormon-apologist.html   Thus far, the comments are uniformly negative and — dare I say it? — uniformly misunderstand the nature of Mormon apologetics (just as the column says).   Oh well.  One does what one can.     Read more

    http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/elder-cook-faith-values-quest-knowledge     Read more

    https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/comfortably-alone-universe   It may, of course, be the case that God has placed us, and perhaps all other mortal beings who may be out there, in some kind of cosmic quarantine, lest we contaminate each other or cheat on the test.     Read more

    Here’s an unexpected tale, kindly brought to my attention by Jabra Ghneim:   http://blog.palestine-studies.org/2015/10/28/the-untold-story-of-palestinians-who-learned-hebrew/     Read more

    The response of the men who were introduced into polygamy between 1841 and 1846 was anything but enthusiastic. The same was true of the women who were offered the chance of becoming plural wives. Apart from the fact that the new system collided with moral assumptions they had grown up with, there were practical difficulties that made polygamy less attractive. For the men to support additional wives was seldom easy. Leonard Arrington and Davis Bitton     Read more