Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1068

“The World’s Strongest Librarian”

    My wife and I belong to a reading group with which we’ve met pretty much monthly for something on the order of twenty-five years, or  maybe even a bit longer.  There are several people in it whose names would be quite familiar to those who’ve followed Mormon cultural activity, historical writing, and other [Read More...]

Is it hopeless?

    “I stayed up part of the night worried as to whether I should say this, but I’m going to say it . . .  If there are here some of you who have been tricked into the conviction that you have gone too far, that you have been weighed down on doubts upon [Read More...]

New Testament 259

    John 11:1-44   1.   Bethany is just over the Mount of Olives from Jerusalem.  Jesus, who probably had little money, seems to have stayed there with his friends Mary, Martha, and Lazarus (= El‘azar or Eleazar) when he was in Judea.  Then he would walk over the hill to Jerusalem, along a [Read More...]

Does the Church oppose science?

    The Church, the custodian of the gospel on earth, looks with full favor upon the attempts of men to search out the facts and laws of nature. It believes that men of science, seekers after truth, are often assisted by the Spirit of the Lord in such researches. It holds further that every [Read More...]

“Let the great summer go”

    Again today, we enjoyed the fresh corn, tomatoes, and peaches that we bought yesterday morning.   Even though winter is on its way, I like this season.  Different colors are beginning to appear.  The temperatures are pleasant.  And we enjoy the harvest.   Yesterday, I threatened to cite a favorite poem once again. [Read More...]

“Scholars split by claim that Koran scrap rewrites story of Islam”

    Thanks to Jabra Ghneim for sharing this with me:   http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/...   For the record: I’m strongly inclined to the more conservative view of the significance of this fragment.   I can well imagine that it dates to soon after the making of the so-called “‘Uthmanic rescension” of the Qur’an.  That would already be [Read More...]

“Scriptural Mormonism”

    It’s time, I think, to call attention again to a really good Latter-day Saint blog.  It’s done by Robert Boylan, out of Ireland:   http://scripturalmormonism.blogspot.ie    

“Elder M. Russell Ballard to speak at World Conference of Families in Salt Lake City”

      On 27 October:   http://www.mormonwomenstand.com/elder...   Among other things, the speech will come twenty years after the issuing of The Family: A Proclamation to the World.    

New Testament 258

      John 10:40-42    In the preceding installment (New Testament 257: “Jesus at the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem”), Jesus was on the western side of the Jordan River, high up on the north-south mountain ridge that runs through Judea, in the city of Jerusalem.   Now, he withdraws “across the Jordan to [Read More...]

It’s the centennial of Talmage’s “Jesus the Christ”

    And to mark that centennial, a new exhibit will open in the Church History Library in Salt Lake City:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article...