Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1097

“‘Sexual Harassment Consultant’ Pushing for a Boy Scouts Badge in ‘Sexual Ethics’”

    Are you as enthusiastic about this as I am?  How do you feel about it?   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...   Posted from the 17th annual FairMormon conference Provo, Utah  

Mormons as a modern “philosomaton genos”

    “The early Christians were known to have remarkably positive views of the human body. Celsus was a second-century Greek philosopher who wrote the first book against Christianity (it was published around A.D. 178). In it, he called Christians a philosomaton genos, which means a ‘flesh-loving people.’ Celsus was amazed that Christians took their [Read More...]

New Testament 225

    Luke 16:14-15   To the extent that we serve God in order to gain earthly rewards — e.g., money, public esteem, the approval of members of the opposite sex, glory, or whatever — we’re not really serving God at all.   I suspect that everybody has this problem, at least to some extent, [Read More...]

Truth, science, and religion

    “If we are seeking to serve the God of truth then we should really welcome truth from whatever source it comes. We shouldn’t fear the truth. Some of it will be from science, obviously, but by no means all of it. It will sometimes be perplexing, how this bit of truth relates to [Read More...]

The “holographic” revelation of the design of the Kirtland Temple

    According to the Hebrew Bible, the Lord not only ordered Moses to construct the tabernacle in the wilderness but, as recorded in Exodus 25-27, gave him specific instructions on Mount Sinai as to its details.   “Look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount,” he said [Read More...]

New Testament 224

    Luke 16:13 Compare Matthew 6:24   James 1:8 says that “a double minded man is unstable in all his ways,” and that seems to be the same message as given in the passages above.   Also Matthew 12:25:  “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against [Read More...]

We’re so very clueless.

    The image above, published by NASA on 5 February 2013, shows cosmic clouds and stellar winds interacting with the flow of the Orion Nebula and specifically with a young variable star in the nebula called LL Orionis.  Still in its formative phase and adrift in Orion’s stellar nursery, LL Orionis produces a much [Read More...]

“Anti-Mormon mockery can actually lead to teaching moments”

    The Book of Mormon musical is in Salt Lake City at the moment.   It’s not sold out, I think, but it’s doing very well — as it’s done nationally and even internationally.  And, of course, the usual suspects (among others) are extravagantly praising it, and ridiculing those who might be less enthused [Read More...]

A guilty beagle

    My daughter-in-law — who just moved into her first house on Friday! — brought this video to my attention.  The thieving beagle tries to atone for his sin:   https://www.facebook.com/ilike9news/v...   Posted from Victoria, British Columbia

Have you been feeling the heat?

    Well, it could be worse.   You could be living in, say, southwestern Iran, at the head of the Persian Gulf:   http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/c...   http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather...   On the whole, I’m quite content to be sitting right now at the southern tip of unusually warm but still relatively cool Vancouver Island, on Canada’s Pacific coast.   [Read More...]