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August 19, 2015
“Four lessons Christ taught about faith”
Did you know that Mormon.org, an official outlet of the Church, has a blog? I didn’t. But it does, and here’s a recent entry: https://www.mormon.org/blog/four-less...
“Two scientific journals accepted a study by Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel”
People who know nothing about Interpreter’s peer review process routinely and confidently announce, on the basis of nothing, that it has none. This, though, is the kind of thing that happens at journals that genuinely don’t have a peer review process: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sp... It’s not the kind of thing that’s likely [Read More...]
August 18, 2015
New Testament 241
Sigh. I inadvertently did New Testament 242 out of its proper order, so I’m turning back to New Testament 241. Then we’ll be on track again. Here we go: John 7:40-52 Some may vaguely imagine in their hearts — though I doubt that they would ever expressly articulate such a [Read More...]
What is life about?
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)
Elder Neil L. Andersen’s powerful address
Elder Neil L. Andersen delivered a remarkable devotional address this morning, in connection with 2015 BYU Education Week. I found the first few minutes of it, about President Boyd K. Packer and Elder L. Tom Perry, personally very moving: http://www.byutv.org/watch/event/5179...
Brigham Young against a then-fashionable scientific form of racism
In his important book Religion of a Different Color, Paul Reeve recounts an interesting episode involving Brigham Young: An early mixed-race (Black and American Indian) member of the Church named William McCary — a rather tenuous and somewhat erratic and even unbalanced fellow, as it turned out, who ultimately didn’t endure faithfully to [Read More...]
See you in Erfurt!
Just in case any of you plan to be in Germany next week, here’s the program for the XXI. World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions: http://www.iahr2015.org/iahr/994.html I’ll be making my presentation as part of a panel that runs 3:30-5:30 PM on Friday, 28 August. Hope [Read More...]
August 17, 2015
Science and judgments of value
“Natural selection . . . has lifted life from primeval simplicity to the dizzy heights of complexity, beauty and apparent design that dazzle us today.” (Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion [Mariner Books, 2008], 99) Commenting on this very passage, the atheist writer Curtis White says “Even if we were to take Dawkins’s [Read More...]
New Testament 242
John 7:53-8:11 This is one of the most famous stories from the life of Christ. It’s also absent from the most ancient manuscripts of the New Testament. (In some other early manuscripts, it appears after John 7:36, or after John 21:25, or even after Luke 21:38, with some textual variations.) [Read More...]
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