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“President Uchtdorf Dedicates New Addition to Church’s Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii”

    Anyone who has spent much time in Laie knows that it badly needed adequate lodging for visitors, and that the construction of a new hotel there will both benefit the local economy and the Polynesian Cultural Center enormously and be a significant tourist asset to Oahu’s North Shore.  Moreover, it will provide wonderful internship [Read More...]

Does the government need to get into the business of evaluating and approving (or disapproving) religions?

    Doing so might, um, raise a few Constitutional issues, in the United States at least:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...    

Mark your calendars!

“New Math Could Reveal Hidden Sources of Chaos”

      http://www.livescience.com/52003-new-...    

“Be ye reconciled to God”

    Here, a bit out of sequence, is the Interpreter Foundation’s 133rd scripture roundtable:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scri...   In it, Stephen Smoot, Jeffrey Bradshaw, Martin Tanner, Cassandra Hedelius, and Daniel Peterson focus on 2015 Gospel Doctrine lesson 35, which covers 2 Corinthians 1-2, 4-7, 11, 12.    

New Testament 249

    John 10:1-18   1.   Latter-day Saints are very familiar with John 10:16, which they see as referring to the Book of Mormon peoples in the New World.  Intriguingly, as I’ve pointed out elsewhere, that same passage was a particular favorite with Christopher Columbus.   2.   The image of Christ as the [Read More...]

“Israeli archaeologists unearth unique stepped structure in City of David”

    http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/0...   Thanks to Kevin Flanigan for calling my attention to this item.    

A worthy goal

    “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”  (Maya Angelou)    

“The ‘Birmingham Koran’ fragment that could shake Islam after carbon-dating suggests it is OLDER than the Prophet Muhammad”

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...   This is a potentially stunning and revolutionary find.   However, I must say that I would be extremely surprised — which is putting it mildly — to somehow  find that the document actually predates Muhammad.  If that were true, of course, it would undercut the entire standard story of the rise of [Read More...]

Cultural Confusion, the Temple, and the Natural Order of Marriage

    The Ensign has published two must-read pieces by Elder Bruce C. Hafen, an emeritus member of the First Quorum of the Seventy and, for many years now, a serious thinker and writer on law, on the family, and on law and the family:   “The Proclamation on the Family: Transcending the Cultural Confusion” [Read More...]