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New Testament 230

    Luke 17:3-4 Compare Matthew 18:15, 21-22   Notice the requirement in this passage, absent from Matthew 18:21-22, that the sinner acknowledge his sin and repent.    

“‘Wars of religion,’ then and now”

    The latest installment of the biweekly joint Hamblin/Peterson column is up in the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

Intellectuals and credulity

    “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”  (George Orwell)    

“Not leaving and going on to perfection”

    Today marks the 159th consecutive week in which Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has published an article.  The Interpreter Foundation has existed for just slightly more than 160 weeks.   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/not-...   Posted from the 17th annual FairMormon conference Provo, Utah    

“Just who is helping Iran’s hardliners?”

      Dr. Charles Krauthammer has an opinion about the proposed nuclear deal with Iran:   https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...   Posted during a break at the 17th annual FairMormon conference Provo, Utah  

A fascinating painting of Christ in Russia

      My friend Mark Stoddard handed me a photocopied reproduction of this painting an hour or two ago.  Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942) was a leading Russian religious painter, and this work reflects very old Russian folk traditions of a visit by Jesus to the ancient Russians, the Kievan Rus.   What a weird idea, [Read More...]

“‘Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions’ Baffle Israeli Archaeologists”

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-...   This must be false.  I thought that archaeology had pretty much settled everything.    

A report from the floor at FairMormon

    Yesterday’s FairMormon program — which Ed Pinegar, Margaret Barker, Brant Gardner, Ron Dennis, Brittany Chapman, David Larsen, and Jim Gordon — was extremely good, and it was capped off with a dinner for speakers and FairMormon volunteers.  My wife and I sat at a table with Margaret Barker, Kevin Christensen and his wife, , John [Read More...]

“Five things to know about the seer stone”

    http://ldsmag.com/the-church-shows-jo...    

New Testament 229

      Luke 17:1-3 Compare Matthew 18:6-7; Mark 9:42   A substantial portion of the trial of this life is dealing with the boorishness, betrayals, indifference, selfishness, dishonesty, and occasional hatred and violence of others.   Such things are an essential part of the test.  But those who are guilty of them will receive no [Read More...]