Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1117

Martin Harris’s sacrifice

    I think, given the many years and the considerable inflation intervening since the late 1820s, that we modern Latter-day Saints typically fail to grasp the magnitude of the sacrifice made by Martin Harris in order to publish the Book of Mormon.   E. B. Grandin’s price was $3000 to produce 5000 high quality [Read More...]

New Testament 173

    Matthew 18:23-35   It’s really easy to deride the folly and blatant hypocrisy of this unmerciful servant.   But how many of us, if we examined ourselves honestly and accurately, could escape pleading guilty to the charge of having a double standard, judging others while hoping to escape judgment ourselves, or, at least, to be treated [Read More...]

A plug for the Liahona Children’s Foundation

    I would like to call attention, yet again, to a charity that my wife and I like:   http://www.liahonachildren.org/#/home   It’s a wonderful cause, and — and I think this is an attractive quality — one offering goals that can actually be realistically achieved.   Here’s an easy way to help:   http://www.liahonachildren.org/#/get_... [Read More...]

A Davidic-era personal name recovered from the dirt west of Jerusalem

    It may seem a small thing, but it strikes me as a nonetheless significant blow against the so-called biblical “minimalists” and for the historicity of the biblical narrative:   http://www.timesofisrael.com/inscript...   The minimalists seem to me weirdly disconnected from the physical, archaeological reality of Palestine.  They tend, on the whole, to treat the Bible

“Does the Qur’an Teach Creation Ex Nihilo?”

      Back in the Bad Old Days, when I was still spewing vitriol from my perch at the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies or FARMS, and long before real scholarship had made its long overdue appearance in that organization, this was one of the hit-pieces that I published there:   http://publications.maxwellinstitute.... [Read More...]

Remembering “A Key for Evaluating Nephite Geographies”

    From its birth back in the Bad Old Days of FARMS, when I was invited by Jack Welch to launch it, I was determined that the Review of Books on the Book of Mormon, as it was first known — it would later become the FARMS Review of Books and then simply the [Read More...]

Fast radio bursts: A window into a new physics?

    Just when we think we know pretty much everything, something odd comes along:   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/phy...   Posted from Bountiful, Utah    

Thirteen Days of Glory

    I think I’ve only been to San Antonio once before, and no visit here can be complete without at least dropping by the Alamo.   At least for me.   The smallness of the Alamo surprised me when I first came, despite warnings.  And it surprised me again today.   The small size, [Read More...]

As if further proof were needed

    There’s a small gaggle of hyper-hostile critics out there who watch this blog with obsessive interest and who post extremely negative comments on it virtually daily.   I find them fascinating as a kind of laboratory specimen of odd human behavior.  I look in on them almost every day, for at least a [Read More...]

It’s how we respond.

    Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.  (Charles Swindoll)   Posted from San Antonio, Texas