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ISIS leader killed or wounded?

    This is potentially big news, if it’s confirmed.  Especially so if the self-proclaimed “caliph” of the so-called “Islamic State” has been killed:   http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/11/world/i...   But such claims have been made before, and this one hasn’t yet been confirmed.   We shall see.    

New Testament 255

    Matthew 19:23-30 Mark 10:23-31 Luke 18:24-30 Compare Luke 22:28-30   1.   There is and was no gate in Jerusalem called “the eye of a needle,” for which a camel had to kneel or be stripped of its load, or through which a camel was unable to pass.   The idea here is [Read More...]

“Republican candidates work to win over Mitt’s Mormon army in Nevada”

    Quite interesting:   http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/...   I still wish Mitt himself were running, though.   With Trump and Carson as the Republican frontrunners, and with Bush and Rubio and Cruz and almost all of the others failing to catch fire in any notable way, I fear that we’ll end up with a President Clinton [Read More...]

Life is so very fragile and transient

    I just saw a personally shocking item from the United Arab Emirates:   http://www.thenational.ae/uae/heritag...   I didn’t know Rob Bateman well.   Far from it, in fact.  I only met him following one of my lectures at Education Week this past August.  I had previously heard from his stake director of public affairs, [Read More...]

New Testament 253

  I think it’s time for me to get back to my series of New Testament comments.  So here we go:     Matthew 19:13-15 Mark 10:13-16 Luke 18:15-17 Compare Matthew 18:3; John 3:3, 5   Jesus’ attention to little children tells us many things.   Among them, we learn that he doesn’t value wealth, [Read More...]

And start now.

      “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”  (Theodore Roosevelt)    

“Shroud of Turin DNA Comes from All Over World”

    http://www.realclearscience.com/journ...    

“Nephi becomes a man”

    An article in today’s Deseret News by Taylor Halverson:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

“A history of Peter Pan in print, onstage, and on screen”

    An interesting article in the Deseret News by an exceptionally good young writer:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

“Read This, Not That!”

    My friend and former Maxwell Institute colleague John Gee endorses Michael MacKay and Gerrit Dirkmaat’s 2015 book From Darkness unto Light:   http://fornspollfira.blogspot.com/201...   I myself published an endorsement of the book back in June:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   I commend it to your attention.   It will solidify and correct Latter-day Saint understandings, and, [Read More...]