Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1040

“To judge or not to judge: not much of a question”

    A nice essay from clear back in early July, by the peerless Greg Smith:   https://seesangelsinthearchitecture.w...    

“Oliver Cowdery in Wisconsin”

    Today’s installment of my weekly Deseret News column:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   For the story behind the image of Oliver Cowdery, above, see here.        

In which, for a moment at least, I master my “lust for deception”

    A couple of days ago, someone sent to me, on Facebook, an item about an ISIS fighter who had allegedly been involved in child sex trafficking but who has recently been killed by the Russians in Syria.   Since, as a few readers of this blog may know, I have some slight interest in [Read More...]

“The Road to Middle East Perdition”

    Conservative analysis from one of my favorite authors, the Central California farmer and Stanford-Ph.D. classicist Victor Davis Hanson:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...   Incidentally, there’s a report tonight that Cuban troops — Cuban troops — are now on the ground in Syria, along with their Russian counterparts.  After decades of isolation, the Castro brothers have [Read More...]

“Why ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’ sound so similar in so many languages”

    You might find this very, very interesting.  I did, even though I already knew quite a bit of it:   http://www.theatlantic.com/internatio...        

“Unique LDS temple, high-rise apartment project excites Mormons, others in Philadelphia”

    Some of you who missed this article from a couple of weeks ago might find it of interest:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   When I was younger, I wanted to be an architect.  But I’m utterly and absolutely devoid of even the slightest visual talent.   I know.  That hasn’t stopped some architects.  But it [Read More...]

New Testament 260

    John 11:45-53 Compare Matthew 26:1-5; Mark 11:18; 14:1-2; Luke 19:47-48; 22:1-2   It’s the miracle of the raising of Lazarus — far too spectacular and far too public to be ignored — that seems to have finally impelled the Jewish leadership in Jerusalem to seek Jesus’ life.   For some background on Caiaphas’s [Read More...]

Two quotations from John Adams

      “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”     “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”    

Gun control zealots, try looking at the evidence!

    I support the right to keep and bear Howitzers.   If guns are outlawed, how will we shoot liberals?   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...    

New Testament 258-259

    John 10:40-42 John 11:1-44   I wrote a column on divine emotion back at the beginning of 2014:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   I still regard this as a vitally important theological point.   And if, as passages such as Colossians 1:15 and Hebrews 1:3 suggest, Christ is a perfect representation of the Father, the [Read More...]