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June 24, 2015
Fireside tonight in Orem, at 7:30
There are two big double-chapel LDS meetinghouses that share a single parking lot north of the Orem Costco. On 8th South and 8th East, I think. I’m speaking in the east chapel of the northernmost/easternmost of the two chapels. It’s a very fortunate thing that the person who invited me to speak [Read More...]
Published on June 24, 2015 16:13
Pure evil, unashamed
The nihilistic death-cult calling itself the “Islamic State” (aka ISIS or ISIL) has begun destroying monuments in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra: http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/24/middlee... And it continues to play with various ways of cruelly executing its prisoners: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/06/... But I hear less and less outrage. We’re adapting, I suppose. [Read More...]
Published on June 24, 2015 09:21
Once more: Brigham Young, villain
In response to my recent defenses of Brigham Young (for which, see here and here and here), two more people (beyond Greg Smith) have kindly brought additional stories to my notice. The first is a reader who calls himself “ideeho.” I don’t have easy access at the moment to my copy of [Read More...]
Published on June 24, 2015 09:00
HBR: “The Internet makes you think you’re smarter than you are”
Doug Ealy brings this interesting item to my notice from the Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2015/07/the-internet-... It might help to explain a huge amount of online idiocy and misbehavior.
Published on June 24, 2015 08:15
June 23, 2015
More of the back and forth between Dr. Jenkins and Dr. Hamblin on the Book of Mormon
The discussion continues between Professor Phillip Jenkins, a reputable non-LDS scholar who, it turns out, has no respect for belief in the Book of Mormon and still less for attempts by scholars to defend it, and Professor William Hamblin, a believing LDS scholar. These are the latest installments. Items identified as “Jenkins [Read More...]
Published on June 23, 2015 22:05
New Testament 182
Luke 10:25-28 Compare Matthew 22:34-40; Mark 12:28-34 τοῦτο ποίει καὶ ζήσῃ. “Do this, and you will live.” With that kind of promise coming at its conclusion, this brief passage ought to be given a great deal of thoughtful attention by all disciples of Christ. Maybe daily.
Published on June 23, 2015 21:29
“You Will Be Assimilated: The Same-Sex Marriage Bait and Switch”
It seems very likely that, within a few days, a lawyer by the name of Anthony Kennedy will cast the deciding vote to redefine the primordial human institution of marriage for the United States of America. His qualifications for this rather consequential task include three years of studying contracts, the law of evidence, torts, [Read More...]
Published on June 23, 2015 21:11
Amused by the barbarian
“We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces [Read More...]
Published on June 23, 2015 20:45
“88 amazing facts everyone should know”
Well, truthfully, I’m not sure that they’re all that important. But they’re fun: http://mentalfloss.com/article/65401/...
Published on June 23, 2015 17:07
“The Archaeology of the Council of Nicaea”
If it can’t be archaeologically proven, it didn’t happen! http://fornspollfira.blogspot.com/201...
Published on June 23, 2015 16:36
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