Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1069

Some more items for your calendar

    Here’s a tentative schedule for a really interesting upcoming visitor to BYU:   Dr. Joshua Berman Senior Lecturer in the Zalman Shamir Bible Department, Bar-Ilan University, Israel   Wednesday, October 7, 7:00 pm “The Differences between the Tabernacle and the Temple: Architecture and Ideology” Place TBA   Thursday, October 8, 11:00 am “The [Read More...]

What is faith?

    “Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.”  (D. Elton Trueblood)    

“The Amazing Teen Brain”

    I’d like to call the attention of parents, grandparents, teachers, Church leaders, police, youth leaders, teenagers themselves, and just about everybody else to an extraordinarily interesting article in the June 2015 issue of Scientific American.  (Unfortunately, so far as I’m aware, it’s not completely accessible online without a purchase.  But there are libraries [Read More...]

Harvest time

    We’ve been traveling so much this summer that we really haven’t had much time to . . . well, to have a summer.   And a large part of “summer,” to me, is certain foods.   But, today, we went a long way toward overcoming the deficit.   The tri-tip steak was really [Read More...]

“Carly Fiorina’s Powerful New Friend”

    http://www.foxbusiness.com/business-l...   I could be happy supporting a Carly Fiorina-Ben Carson ticket.   I like her executive experience, and her willingness to speak her mind.  I would love to see her debate Hillary Clinton.     I worry about Ben Carson’s lack of executive experience.  But I like him a lot, and he’s [Read More...]

“Losing the War of Ideas”

        With the proviso that, in my opinion, the “jihadists” distort and misrepresent the authentic original meaning of jihad, I think this article is correct:     http://www.realclearpolitics.com/arti...   Right at the moment, I think that the world is indeed losing the battle with jihadism — and that this will have horrifying [Read More...]

New Testament 257

    John 10:22-39 Compare Luke 4:29-30   Jesus’ pronouncement here that he and his Father are “one” is one of the bases for the doctrine of the Trinity.  I’ll argue in a forthcoming article for Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture that some contemporary Catholic and Protestant theologians are drawing closer to Mormon understandings [Read More...]

“Wartburg Castle is at the center of Germany and its history”

    Today’s biweekly Hamblin-Peterson column has appeared in the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   If you have the time, please be sure to look at all five of the photos that accompany the article.  They’ll give you a reasonably good idea of the place.    

“Fire and Brimstone”

    An intriguing thought:   http://etherscave.blogspot.com/2015/0...    

New Testament 256

    Matthew 20:1-16 Compare Matthew 19:30; Mark 10:31; Luke 13:30   It’s common to dismiss or mock deathbed conversions.   I certainly understand why this should be so.  Such “conversions” must, I assume, commonly be rather cynical, insincere, self-interested, and ultimately vain attempts at fooling the Supreme Being.  The time for sinning having run [Read More...]