Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1126

“Joseph Smith’s vision of the 3 degrees of glory was a gift from God”

    This week’s Thursday column for the Deseret News is now up:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   Posted from Berlin, Germany    

Cold realism, I’m afraid

      However compassionate you may feel — and your compassion does you great credit — when reading certain items online (e.g., on message boards or in newspaper or magazine comment sections, especially when the topic is either religion or politics), it’s vital to keep the principle above in mind.   I, of course, [Read More...]

“The Scholarship of Hugh Nibley and John Sorenson: The Myth of Non-Respectability”

    A nice post from Neal Rappleye, though I expect that it won’t do the slightest bit of good in the benighted quarters to which he alludes:   http://www.studioetquoquefide.com/201...   Posted from Berlin, Germany    

“Editor in Chief of the World’s Best-Known Medical Journal: Half of All the Literature is False”

    Some of my critics love to portray me as hostile to science.  I read fairly often on the web that I distrust scientists and regard science itself as satanic.  I’ve learned from the web, moreover, that I’m a young-earth creationist — something that I could never have discovered about myself without the help [Read More...]

What are some things that we should do daily?

    Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.  (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)   Posted from Göttingen, Germany    

“Stop me before I fake again”

    A sociologist at the University of Maryland demonstrates, briefly, how absurdly easy it is to falsify social science data, or to make it up out of thin air — whatever one’s motives might be, whether ideological or for personal advancement and glory:   https://familyinequality.wordpress.co...   The late John Boswell, a prolific historian who [Read More...]

Building a better world by stifling dissent

    I don’t know whether any of you saw this two months ago, or, if you did, whether you remember it.  But it’s an instructive incident:   http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/...   By itself, it signifies little or nothing.  But it’s scarcely alone.   Posted from Göttingen, Germany    

A mission memory, and the world’s most-kissed girl

    We drove up this morning from Frankfurt to the university town of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony.   I haven’t been here in, I believe, forty two years.  (Yes, I’m that old.)   We walked around the Innenstadt, the inner city (within the old walls).  It was very pleasant, because today was a holiday, [Read More...]

Recovering (at least part of) a lost sermon by the Prophet Joseph Smith

    This is fun.  A little bit of Church history that might otherwise have been and remained lost.   http://ldsmag.com/the-lost-sermon-of-...   Keep a journal.   And, if there are any old journals in your possession or your family’s possession, please consider giving at least a copy to the Church History Department library, or the [Read More...]

Roots and Wings

    I’ve noticed a current television commercial for Ram trucks, about “roots” and “wings.”  So, can country music actually be called “classical music”?   There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.  (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)   Posted from Göttingen, Germany