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“Iraqi PM warns ISIS could become unstoppable as key city threatened”

      Sigh.   It seems that the silly little jayvee team known as ISIS is still around, somehow:   http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015...    

“Introducing the Envia Discord 2015″

    Thanks to Loran Blood for bringing this marvelous gem to my attention!   http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2014/...    

Brigham Young, on gifts and givers

Some fascinating General Conference statistics

    I posted an entry the other day entitled “Ashamed of Joseph?” in which I noted that some critics had detected, and were celebrating, a sharp decline in mentions of the Prophet Joseph Smith during the just-concluded General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.   They claim that leaders and [Read More...]

“The Art of Thinking Clearly”

    I’ve just about finished a leisurely reading, over the past month, of Rolf Dobelli’s book Die Kunst des klaren Denkens: 52 Denkfehler, die Sie besser anderen überlassen.   It’s a compilation of short newspaper articles (for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Schweizer Sonntags-Zeitung) that its Swiss author had published on common errors [Read More...]

“The religion of secular liberalism”

    An important column from Eric Metaxas, one of my absolute favorite contemporary writers:   http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentar...    

Getting started at changing the world

    “How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment. We can start now, start slowly, changing the world. How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make a contribution toward introducing justice straightaway. And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!” —Anne Frank (1929-1945)     [Read More...]

Ashamed of Joseph?

    The graph above is getting some buzz in certain circles, because, they suggest, it demonstrates that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, embarrassed by him, is attempting to distance itself from the Prophet Joseph Smith and go “mainstream.”   I have no idea whether the figures undergirding the graph — particularly [Read More...]

A visit to BYU’s Jerusalem Center

    If you haven’t yet been to Israel, you might enjoy this 13:35 minute video that’s shown to groups — and there are many of them each week — who visit Brigham Young University’s Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies.   If you’ve been there already, though, you might enjoy it even more.   It [Read More...]

The future is now!

    Or, perhaps more accurately, the future was then.   I try to avoid blogging about politics on the Sabbath.   Pretty successfully, too.   But I simply have to record how thrilled and excited I am about today’s political news.   Building on current successes; leaving behind the old, tired facts of yesterday; [Read More...]