Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1094

“Lost resting place of Egyptian queen Nefertiti may have been hidden by Tutankhamun’s tomb, archaeologist says”

    A remarkable and exciting discovery, if it proves to be true:   http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/0...    

New Testament 234

    Luke 17:20-21 Compare Matthew 24:23; Mark 13:21;   The King James translation “the kingdom of God is within you” has occasioned a lot of New Agey nonsense, among other things (some good, some bad).   But it’s wrong.   ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ ἐντὸς ὑμῶν ἐστιν means “The kingdom of God is in [Read More...]

“All the great things are simple . . . “

    “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” Winston Churchill    

“Obama’s Iran nuclear deal rhetoric troubles American Jews”

    http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/10/politic...    

Tonight at 7 PM, in West Jordan, Utah

    http://www.cruiselady.com/learn-our-r...   If you want to come, I think you have to call and reserve a place.  I’m assuming, though I don’t actually know it for sure, that there are still seats available.    

On early Mormonism and the “magic” world view

    Years ago, in the wake of Mark Hoffman’s “discovery” of the so-called “white salamander letter” — which, it turned out (even before his conviction for two gruesome murders), he had forged — there was an eruption of Mormon writing on “magic,” early American “folk religion,” frontier “treasure digging,” and the like.   Some [Read More...]

New Testament 232

    Luke 17:7-10   There is an analogous passage in the Book of Mormon, in King Benjamin’s marvelous speech.  And, to me anyway, there’s a striking anecdote (from outside the Book of Mormon) in which it plays a role:   Truman Madsen once told me of a year-end Christmas party for the missionaries who served [Read More...]

An important speech by the head of LDS Public Affairs

    Michael Otterson, the head of the Public Affairs Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spoke on Friday morning at the seventeenth annual conference of FairMormon.  His remarks were entitled “On the Record.”   Here is a complete and official transcript of his speech, which I thought both important and [Read More...]

Knowing your enemy (in a rather different sense)

    “If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow    

Two non-Mormon academics who call Joseph Smith a “prophet”

    My wife and I brought the Catholic philosopher Stephen Webb to our ward today.  He was able to attend sacrament meeting and almost all of Sunday school with us, before he and I had to leave for the airport.   He was, he said, very positively impressed.   I was certainly happy to have [Read More...]