Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1105

“Professor speaks on LDS Church’s global historical landscape at Pioneers in Every Land series”

    Interesting remarks from a Latter-day Saint scholar for whom I have considerable personal respect:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

Of home

    “Home is the nicest word there is.”  (Laura Ingalls Wilder)    

“Professor: Scott Walker and Hitler share ‘so many’ similarities that ‘it’s terrifying’”

    Some of my liberal-leaning friends routinely talk as if lunatic extremism existed only on the Right — and they define such extremist lunacy very, um, liberally, often claiming to have found it (usually without actually listening to it or watching it for themselves) on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show or to have discovered it [Read More...]

“The Prodigal’s Return to the Father: House of Glory and Rediscovery”

    You were thinking, maybe, that Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture missed publication yesterday?   Not so:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/the-...   I just happened to be in a car driving from northern New Mexico into southwestern Colorado, without reliable internet access, when the article went up.   Happy reading!  Have a very excellent weekend! [Read More...]

“Nuns are Obamacare’s latest victims”

    A member of Mr. Obama’s cabinet said, this past week, that he didn’t think that the federal government had the legal right to lean on “sanctuary cites” like San Francisco in order to persuade them to obey federal immigration laws.   (Google Kate Steinle in order to see photos of the young woman [Read More...]

“Iran can no longer be contained”

    This analyst says that Iran’s regional dominance is now virtually inevitable:   https://www.commentarymagazine.com/20...   Yippee!   Posted from Durango, Colorado    

New Testament 205

    Luke 12:54-56 Compare Matthew 16:2-3   Many of our problems in life come from our failure to pay attention and to reflect.   The signs are out there.  The warnings have been given.   Posted from Durango, Colorado    

“Environmental Stewardship and Conservation”

    An official statement from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on our responsibility to care for the Earth:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article...   Posted from Durango, Colorado  

“Don’t call believers in homeopathy idiots”

    This is an insightful and important little article:   http://www.theguardian.com/commentisf...   I think that the author’s advice would be helpful to people in more than one field.  And, more generally, many internet polemicists and (often anonymous) message board commenters could profit from the suggestion that they not treat with contempt those with whom [Read More...]

Theological disputes are important, but sometimes they need to be set aside.

    Benjamin Franklin is said to have commented to his fellow signers of the Declaration of Independence that, if they didn’t all hang together, they would assuredly hang separately.   Defenders of religious liberty in the United States may well find themselves in a similar situation, and in the not too far distant future. [Read More...]