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June 23, 2015

Intriguing (and puzzling) new photos of the Solar System’s largest asteroid

    Technically, it’s considered a “dwarf planet”:   http://www.nature.com/news/intriguing...    
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Published on June 23, 2015 15:48

Finding the middle ground on a contentious issue

    I think Franklin Graham has summed up the traditional or orthodox Christian position on this moral question rather well:   Being gay-friendly is not optional; it is a commandment from Jesus. But being an advocate for the gay lifestyle contradicts God’s word.    
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Published on June 23, 2015 13:55

“Can Islam come back to the light of science?”

    This brief article summarizes the glorious past and current dysfunction of one of the world’s great civilizations, but nonetheless manages to express some very slight optimism:   http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/...    
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Published on June 23, 2015 11:09

“What ‘Mormon problem’? More would vote for a Mormon than an Evangelical Christian”

    A really interesting item from the Washington Post:   http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/t...   Latter-day Saints haven’t suddenly become popular.  Evangelical popularity is plummeting.   On one level, I think some Evangelicals have brought this on themselves through their aggressive triumphalism and, sometimes, through their air of sheer smug superiority.  (Evangelical anti-Mormonism affords an unappetizing illustration [Read More...]
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Published on June 23, 2015 09:14

June 22, 2015

“(One Reason Why) I Love Brigham Young”

    Noticing my recent posts in defense of Brigham Young, my friend, onetime FARMS Review colleague, and current Interpreter Foundation colleague Greg Smith called my attention to something that he’d recently posted on his own blog, but which I had missed while traveling overseas:   https://seesangelsinthearchitecture.w...   It’s a nice story, little known but [Read More...]
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Published on June 22, 2015 22:53

A constantly recurring invasion

    “Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.” Thomas Sowell    
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Published on June 22, 2015 22:42

“Turn Around”

    I heard the Mormon Tabernacle Choir perform this Harry Belafonte/Alan Greene/Malvina Reynolds song on Father’s Day, and it’s put me into a (plainly lasting) nostalgic and wistful mood:   Where are you going, my little one, little one, Where are you going, my baby, my own? Turn around and you’re two, Turn around [Read More...]
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Published on June 22, 2015 21:48

“Far from the Madding Crowd”

    I could have been happy, I think, as an English major.  In any case, I’ve been drawn to Thomas Hardy since I was in high school.   So I enjoyed this new version of Far from the Madding Crowd — both for its own sake and for its reminding me of the novel.   [Read More...]
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Published on June 22, 2015 20:39

The continuing legacy of the Confederate past?

    A fascinating article from the Economist entitled “The Present Past” – which I hadn’t seen yet, but to which Doug Ealy kindly called my attention — shows what seems to be, if not lasting effects of the Confederacy, at least the ongoing implications of a distinctively “Southern” mindset and sensibility.   http://www.economist.com/news/united-...   And guess [Read More...]
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Published on June 22, 2015 15:33

That vile despot Brigham Young, again

    Almost immediately after I posted my previous item on “The vile despot Brigham Young,” I thought of another book that I should have included, one that would give a better idea of Brigham the (good) man:   http://www.amazon.com/Letters-Brigham...   And then a reader calling himself Bernardo Gui recommended it, saying of the letters [Read More...]
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Published on June 22, 2015 12:55

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