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September 9, 2015
“When does your religion legally excuse you from doing part of your job?”
Kim Davis has been released from jail, but the case of the Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk remains a controversial and interesting one. Here’s a careful, calm, and lucid analysis of the legal issues involved in it by Eugene Volokh, a prominent professor of constitutional law at UCLA. He is, himself, a libertarian [Read More...]
New Testament 262
Matthew 20:17-19 Mark 10:32-34 Luke 18:31-34 These predictions are about as clear as they could possibly be, so Luke’s comment that the apostles didn’t understand them at all seems rather strange. But perhaps it’s understandable when we realize that the apostles were totally caught up in the mesmerizing, charismatic leadership of Jesus. [Read More...]
“7 Ancient Mysteries Archaeologists Will Solve This Century”
An intriguing set of predictions: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/20...
September 8, 2015
Tuesday evening’s lecture
Royal Skousen’s lecture tonight was well attended. And, I think, well received. Among other things, he presented some of his findings with regard to what the Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon tells us regarding the scribes and the process of translation. He also announced that the Book of Mormon Critical [Read More...]
“I Can Do All Things Through Christ”
John Gee, Martin Tanner, and Bruce Webster gather for this, the 138th scripture roundtable published by the Interpreter Foundation. Their discussion centers on 2015 Gospel Doctrine lesson 40, which is based, in its turn, on the New Testament epistles of Philippians, Colossians 1-4, and Philemon: http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scri...
From the “Washington Post”: “Obama’s Syria Achievement”
The Washington Post! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio... As the Wall Street Journal pointed out in an excellent editorial published on Tuesday (“The West’s Refugee Crisis”), “This is what the world looks like when the West abandons its responsibility to maintain world order. . . the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the 21st century. . . [Read More...]
What the Father wants for you (and me)
“Now, brothers and sisters, prophets have lived and died to reestablish in the world in our generation that glorious truth–that what the Eternal Father wants for you and with you is the fullness of your possibilities. And those possibilities are infinite. And he did not simply make you from nothing into a worm; [Read More...]
New Testament 261
John 11:54-57 Jesus knows what’s coming, but he intends to keep control of his timing.
Bill Hamblin on the Maxwell Institute and on Book of Mormon studies at BYU
My longtime friend and colleague Dr. William Hamblin — who recently took relatively early retirement from BYU, in part over his frustration with the University’s apparent recent course — has just posted two provocative pieces on his blog: “How BYU destroyed ancient Book of Mormon studies” “Goodbye to all that” I don’t [Read More...]
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