Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1107
July 11, 2015
Fellowshipping with the Saints
I enjoyed spending almost all of the day today up in the Park City area with an interesting little group that featured, among several others, Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye, Charles Randall Paul, Scot and Maurine Proctor, Kristine Haglund, Terryl and Fiona Givens, Brian Birch, Matthew Bowman, Ralph Hancock, Juliann Reynolds, Phil Barlow, Neylan McBaine, Paul Reeve, and at least one of [Read More...]
“Is suicide bombing in the Middle East really motivated by religion?”
The biweekly Hamblin-Peterson Deseret News column has appeared. So far, though, for some reason, no commenters — not even the usual suspects — have shown up to pronounce me a raving lunatic: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...
“The Biology of the Second Reich: Social Darwinism and the Origins of World War 1″
I highly recommend a look at this fourteen-minute film, available for free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n900... I saw it this morning at FreedomFest in Las Vegas. It’s a fascinating venture into an aspect of intellectual history with which I was unfamiliar. As I commented earlier today, I knew that Social Darwinism [Read More...]
July 10, 2015
“Dueling perspectives on the Book of Mormon, history, method, and interpretation”
Neal Rappleye offers another valuable comment on the Jenkins/Hamblin exchange: http://www.studioetquoquefide.com/201...
On living small
“There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” Nelson Mandela
BYU conference on 1 Corinthians coming on 31 July
http://www.byunewtestamentcommentary.... Posted from Las Vegas, California
“Why ISIS is still winning”
And, as a matter of fact, it clearly is. The military historian Col. Ralph Peters offers an interesting perspective: http://nypost.com/2015/07/09/junior-v... Posted from Las Vegas, Nevada
“Careless Accounts and Tawdry Novelties”
It being Friday, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has published yet another article: http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/care... You thought, maybe, that we were on vacation? Posted from Las Vegas, Nevada
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