Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1098

“Mormon Tabernacle Choir announces its 2016 European tour”

      I’m pretty excited about the (familiar) places where the Choir will be performing next year:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article...   And here’s an interesting related piece:   “Mormonism in Pictures: Mormon Tabernacle Choir Expands Outreach”    

“A note on the limits of archaeology from a filthy post-modernist Mormon apologist”

    I received the following — which is quite relevant to the continuing . . . um, conversation between Dr. Phillip Jenkins, who is attacking the Book of Mormon, and Dr. William Hamblin, who is representing Truth and Goodness — in two separate emails from Stephen Smoot.  Brother Smoot plainly “gets it” where several [Read More...]

“Church Launches Online Campaign to Recognize Pioneers Past and Present”

    Many will agree, as they should, that members of the Church in Africa can be rightly considered pioneers.   But don’t sell yourself and your own family short.  You, too, may have something to contribute here:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article...    

For Fall Term

      There are a few who’re always curious, and a few others who aren’t the least bit curious but who are certain that I do nothing whatever related to the Islamic Near East and only earn my ill-gotten millions from my apologetic lies and slanders.   So here are the courses that I’ll [Read More...]

BYU Studies announces two events regarding the BYU New Testament Commentary

    A press release sent to me by my friends at BYU Studies, accompanied by a request that I bring it to your attention:   The Third Annual Conference of the BYU New Testament Commentary is “Love Never Fails: The Latter-day Saint Affinity towards 1 Corinthians.” The featured speakers are Craig Blomberg of the Denver [Read More...]

The 2015 annual FairMormon conference is coming up soon.

    And, apart from the final speaker on Friday (who will presumably be dishing up his usual vicious but content-free stew of insults and personal attacks), it promises to be a very interesting and substantial line-up:   http://www.fairmormon.org/perspective...    

New Testament 213

    Luke 13:34-35 Compare Matthew 23:37-39   At John 14:7-9, Jesus is speaking with his apostles:   If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, [Read More...]

“Attention America’s Suburbs: You Have Just Been Annexed”

    A new — and, thus far, little noticed — power-grab by the federal government of the United States:   http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/...   This is not only reason for substantive concern, but for procedural worry:  More and more, Americans are not governed by laws passed by majorities of their elected representatives, and, more and more, [Read More...]

“How the Donner Party affected the pioneers’ arrival in the Salt Lake Valley”

    Taylor Halverson offers an interesting bit of  history that’s appropriate for this week’s Utah (and Mormon) commemoration of Pioneer Day:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

Regarding Donald Trump

    Many Republicans seem to be rallying to Donald Trump.  He’s leading in several polls.   They react positively — as they previously did with Governor Chris Christie — to what they perceive as his blunt-talking honesty and his fearless willingness to address sacred cows.   And there’s something to be said for such [Read More...]