Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1021

If there’s intelligent life in Star System KIC 8462852, alas, we’re not detecting it.

    http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/pr...    

A caution for difficult times

      “No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.” Randy Pausch    

An interesting perspective on the new policy from a faithful gay Latter-day Saint

    http://gaymormonguy.blogspot.com/2015...   By the way, I cannot express how much I admire his dedication to his religious beliefs and to keeping his covenants despite the enormous challenges involved.   If they remain faithful, of such most definitely is the Kingdom of Heaven.    

“This much I know: My take on the LGBT Mormon controversy”

    A nice, calm, reasonable, irenic, lucid, faithful, personal response from Sister Kayla Lemmon to the recent policy announcement:   http://lemmonythings.com/2015/11/06/t...   The contrast between her tone and that of some other things I’ve been seeing — including some communications sent directly to Yr Obd’t Servant — is both striking and, I think, significant. [Read More...]

A marvelous way to get into the Christmas spirit, coming up in Salt Lake City

    I want to call your attention to the “Celebration of Christ” that will be held at the end of this month in Salt Lake City’s Capitol Theatre:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHxJ2...   Tickets are required, so, if you’re interested, don’t delay.    

A quotation from the very greatest of Catholic philosophers and theologians

    “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary.  To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)    

“‘He is a Good Man’: The Fulfillment of Helaman 5:6-7 in Helaman 8:7 and 11:18-19″

    I was really busy on Friday with a host of different things, and I’m far behind in drawing attention to the latest weekly publication of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture.   Surprise!  There was one:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/he-i...   This is the 172nd consecutive Friday on which the Interpreter Foundation has published at [Read More...]

Three helpful commentaries on the newly-announced Church policy regarding same-sex unions and children

      Elder D. Todd Christofferson, of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, answers questions in this roughly 10:30-minute video:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article...   Christopher Cunningham identifies “The 9 Facebook Myths about the Church’s New LGBT Policy”:   http://lds.net/blog/buzz/lds-news/myt...   Danny Rasmussen argues that the recently-announced policy is actually favorable to gay families:   http://www.dannyras.com/blog/why-the-... [Read More...]

Two quotations from Russell Kirk

    “Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.” “If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.”      

A third and, for now, final note on the new Church policy

    I’ve already posted two brief notes in response to the new Church policy regarding children of homosexual couples, here and here.   Since then, I’ve seen some very angry comments from people who, they say, are resigning their membership in the Church over this.  Most if not all of them, thus far, have been [Read More...]