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A View from Down Under: “Rise in Religious Intolerance ‘Alarming’”

    This article was kindly brought to my attention by my Australian friend Ray Agostini:   http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/20...    

Are your purchases helping to support the “Islamic State”? It’s not impossible.

    Here’s a cheery thought:   http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/...   In related news, “Britain says Islamic State likely brought down Russian plane.”    

“Mormonism in recent book ‘Becoming Divine’”

    Today’s Deseret News column is merely another (typically) vicious and dishonest specimen from my literary oeuvre.  Quite redundant, really:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

Inerrantist or fundamentalist assumptions can get a Latter-day Saint into difficulty

    This post, by the invaluable Irish Latter-day Saint Robert Boylan, makes what I judge to be a vitally important point:   http://scripturalmormonism.blogspot.c...    

“Mars in the movies: Interesting facts about the Red Planet’s depictions on the silver screen”

    With Ridley Scott’s and Matt Damon’s The Martian showing in theaters right now, you might find this article (from over a month ago) of interest:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

“The man who tried to weigh the soul”

    An interesting (though now little-known) story:   http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cru...   I have no particular investment in Dr. Duncan MacDougall’s attempted measurements.  If he was right, that would be fascinating.  If he was wrong, it doesn’t affect anything I believe, because I wouldn’t have expected him to be right.   But I have to admit [Read More...]

“Coming to terms with a post-Christian world”

    An interesting essay by Rod Dreher:   http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2...   Does it have anything to say to Latter-day Saints?    

He was quite prescient; it’s much worse now.

    Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views. William F. Buckley, Jr.    

“Harry Reid Shocked to Learn He’s Mormon”

    I’ve defended Senator Harry Reid on this blog — more than once — against attacks on his faith, calls for his excommunication, and so forth.  I don’t believe that the Church should be divided by political differences; in fact, I regard such divisions as the work of the devil.  (And I’m deeply serious [Read More...]

“The Harrowing Night Elder Oaks Was Held at Gunpoint”

    An interesting story that many may not know:   http://www.aggielandmormons.org/2015/...   Posted from Salt Lake City, Utah