Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1134

“Say Now Shibboleth, or Maybe Cumorah”

    This week’s article from the Interpreter Foundation:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/say-...   Posted from Tiberias, Israel  

The world’s greatest street?

    Maybe.   It’s certainly a nice one, and an important one, historically and culturally:   http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/23/tra...   And, for years, there was a very influential Latter-day Saint presence on it.   You can read his testimony in his native language  (and, further down, in my English translation) here:   http://mormonscholarstestify.org/1750...   Posted from Tel [Read More...]

“A Sucker by Design”

    On the flight over, my wife and I shared our row with an extremely pleasant older Jewish man, a British-born economist with a Ph.D. and a newly minted American citizen (as of three months ago), who had been a volunteer with Israeli forces during 1967′s Six Day War and who had, since, lost a [Read More...]

“Warfare and the Book of Mormon”

    Today’s “Defending the Faith” article in the Deseret News is now up:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   Posted from Tel Aviv, Israel    

Once more, a note on the death of Europe

    I wrote here the other day about the sharp decline in European birthrates.   On the flight over, I noticed several articles in the 18 April 2015 issue of the Economist that, without signaling that as a theme, addressed the topic at least in passing.   Finland, for example, which faces a looming [Read More...]

See inside the new Payson Utah Temple

    Dang.   I had an invitation for a special tour of the Payson Utah Temple on Tuesday, but, alas, the airport was beckoning me and I couldn’t make it.   Here, though, are some photos of the building, which is soon to be dedicated.   Posted from Tel Aviv, Israel  

New Testament 141

    John 5:2-47   Just a quick comment on this wonderful story:   We often quote John 5:39 as an imperative, exhorting us to study the scriptures:  “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”   That’s a good use of the [Read More...]

“Religion poisons everything!” (8)

    My parents spent all too many days, especially during their last months, in Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, of Whittier, California.  Both eventually died there.   My granddaughter spent the whole of her brief mortal life in Florida Hospital Orlando, part of the health system of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, where the nursing staff and even [Read More...]

“Who will stand?”

    He’ll be denounced, mocked, ridiculed, and derided for this:   http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firs...   Of course he will.   But that virtually inevitable reaction is actually part of what he’s talking about.   And I don’t fear for him:  Robbie George is very nearly as bright and certainly almost as courageous as the anonymous online mob that [Read More...]

The trouble with reality

    I ran across this the other day:   “The trouble with reality is that there’s no background music.”