Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1119

Decisive (if redundant) proof that I’m a racist!

    I posted an item yesterday that included a picture labeled  “The late Richard Pryor, a favorite comedian of mine, in a 1986 photo taken by Alan Light.  HIs SNL skit ‘White Like Me’ was really funny, but then, it was INTENDED to be funny.”   Responding in a comment, Andrew Hall pointed out, [Read More...]

“A small German town with a vast history”

    The most recent installment of the Hamblin-Peterson Deseret News column is now up:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   Posted from San Antonio, Texas    

“Mormon leader encourages dialogue, deeper understanding among global faiths”

    Elder Jörg Klegingat, of the First Quorum of the Seventy, spoke on Wednesday to an international gathering in Astana, Kzazakhstan:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article...   Posted from San Antonio, Texas    

“Is Richard Dawkins Destroying His Reputation?”

    An interesting profile of the most prominent of the so-called “New Atheists”:   http://www.theguardian.com/science/20...   Posted from San Antonio, Texas    

“White woman posed as black civil rights leader in years-long deception”

    I just watched a fairly long item about the director of the NAACP in Spokane, Washington, on CNN, and then found that Doug Ealy had shared the article below with me on Facebook.   To my taste, it’s an extraordinarily weird story:   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world...   Posted from San Antonio, Texas  

Margaret Thatcher, on Envy

    The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.  (Margaret Thatcher) Posted from San Antonio, Texas    

“A Mormon Theodicy: Jacob and the Problem of Evil”

    It’s that day of the week, so, of course, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has published a new article:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/a-mo...   Posted from San Antonio, Texas    

A question for active, believing LDS who claim to hate BYU

    This article reminded me of a question that has occurred to me from time to time:   I can’t say that I “hate” any team in sports — though, at one point, the San Francisco Giants came close in my mind, and though I can’t claim to think many positive thoughts about the [Read More...]

“Obama plays analyst-in-chief in fight against ISIS”

    https://www.commentarymagazine.com/20...    

New Testament 171

    Matthew 18:19-20   Christianity was never meant to be a religion of isolated piety.  Hermits and anchorites are foreign to the New Testament.   Christians are intended to be in fellowship with one another, to worship as congregations, “to bear one another’s burdens, that they may be light” (Mosiah 18:8).