Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1059

“Study finds people’s conservative and liberal traits show up in their Twitter vocabulary”

        Here’s a curious bit of . . . well, I guess it’s a kind of science:   http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/item...   Posted from Springfield, Illinois    

Joseph Smith on socialism

    “In public pronouncements in Nauvoo, the Prophet made clear his support of the enduring economic principle of individual ownership.  The issue was raised  in September 1843, when a traveling English socialist, John Finch, preached from the stand in the grove.  Smith responded by denouncing Finch’s socialism.” Glen M. Leonard, Nauvoo: A Place of [Read More...]

From the Huffington Post: “How to manage Mormon missionaries”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mette-i...   Posted from Springfield, Illinois  

“Next da Vinci: Math genius using formulas to create fantastical works of art”

      Mathematics is beautiful.   http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/17/arts/ma...   Why?   Posted from Springfield, Illinois    

Lincoln’s Prose

    Given where I now sit, I think it appropriate to call attention again to one of the most wonderful pieces of English prose that I know, a letter from Abraham Lincoln to a Mrs. Bixby who, it was believed at the time, had lost five sons in the ongoing Civil War.  (It turned [Read More...]

“You More Than Owe Me This Benefit: Onomastic Rhetoric in Philemon”

    it’s Friday, and — shazaam! — another article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/you-...    

“Utah is the happiest state in the nation, study says”

    http://kutv.com/news/local/utah-is-th...   I expect that the howls of derision have already begun.  This simply must not, cannot, be true.  Mormonism destroys lives, makes people miserable.    

In my judgment, one of the finest moments in the other night’s Republican “debate”

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article...   Watch the video, too.    

“How the plague became a deadly force”

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/p...   And here’s a cheery thought:  Did you know that the Black Death is alive and well (and that it’s endemic to the wildlife of the western United States)?   Now lets go camping!    

Does this sound like insincere language to you?

    On 27 November 1832, the Prophet wrote from Kirtland to his friend William W. Phelps, who was editing the Church newspaper in Jackson County, Missouri.  Contained in that letter is the following passage, impassioned with yearning and impatient at the constraints imposed by our fallen mortality:   Oh Lord when will the time [Read More...]