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September 16, 2015
Two cautionary notes on the current European refugee crisis
Terrible things are happening in Europe right now, and there’s a lot of desperate human need. My instincts, like those of most decent people, make me very strongly inclined to help, and to support government actions that will help — and perhaps all the more so because I’ve spent a large chunk of [Read More...]
David Whitmer as eyewitness
“No, sir! I was not under any hallucination, nor was I deceived! I saw with these eyes and I heard with these ears! I know whereof I speak!’ Thus David Whitmer, when a group that included Joseph Smith III interviewed him at Richmond, Missouri, in July 1884. One of them, a non-believer [Read More...]
September 15, 2015
“‘Facts Are Stubborn Things’: The Mesoamerican Reawakening”
An interesting little item from Neal Rappleye: http://www.studioetquoquefide.com/201...
From the Diary of a Young Girl
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” “Think of all the beauty still left around [Read More...]
Donald Trump, the face of our nation?
One of the distinctives of the constitutional government of the United States is that the functions of head of state and head of government are combined in the American presidency. The president of the United States is, in a sense, the equivalent of both the United Kingdom’s monarch and the United Kingdom’s prime [Read More...]
The eyewitness testimony of William Smith
William Smith, the younger brother of the Prophet Joseph Smith, led an occasionally tempestuous life and, although he had served in the Twelve and as patriarch to the Church, was excommunicated late in 1845. He never returned, although he affiliated himself from time to time with various offshoots of the Restoration movement. [Read More...]
September 14, 2015
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