Despite its many flaws and problems, the United States of America has consistently been the greatest force for good in the world during the past century. God bless America! Happy Fourth of July! Read more

My photos of the Khanaka (sufi “monastery”) of Nadir Divan-Beghi in Bukhara, Uzbekistan (Aug. 2010); the simurgh (Persian phoenix) and solar disk symbolism is particularly striking. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamblinofjerusalem/sets/72157630413463238/detail/ Read more

“Messianic sect allows peek into battle to build third Temple” http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/messianic-sect-allows-peek-into-battle-to-build-third-temple.premium-1.448410 Read more

Attached is my paper, “The Temple in the Qur’ān,” which I presented in Dublin on May 27, 2012.  It examines how the Jerusalem temple is depicted in the Qur’ān. HAMBLIN Temple in Qur’an   Read more

Started by Bryce Hammond http://www.templestudy.com/2012/06/29/restore-farms-support-organization/ http://restorefarms.com/ http://www.facebook.com/RestoreFARMS Read more

To apostate disinformation. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2012/06/flatly-not-true.html   Read more

Yesterday on his Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/johndehlin), John Dehlin posted the following: Urgent: Need specific examples of LDS apologetic ad hominem attacks for a presentation I’m preparing. Please post them here if you can. Thanks in advance! Frankly, this leaves me both puzzled and astonished. 1- If he doesn’t have enough examples of apologetic ad hominem from his own past study, why has he been so loudly and publicly proclaiming that LDS apologists consistently engage in serial ad hominem?  His claim... Read more

http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2012/06/guest-post-why-i-find-developments-at-the-maxwell-institute-concerning/ Read more

The apostates endlessly complain that the FARMS Review under Dan Peterson’s term as editor included nothing but ad hominem insults.  (The irony that that claim is itself an ad hominem excuse to dismiss the Review without reading it seems lost on them.  They also seem to confuse negative reviews with ad hominem.) If you want to see what real ad hominem is like, take a look at Edwin Firmage’s rant in the Salt Lake Tribune comment section of Peggy Fletcher Stack’s article on... Read more

From the always insightful Ben McGuire; http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/58165-apologetics-and-polemics/ Read more