Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1140

Among other things, Muslims will likely outnumber Christians by roughly 2050.

    Religious projections between 2010 and 2050:   http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/re...    

“The Post-Indiana Future for Christians”

    Thanks — I suppose — to Cassandra Hedelius for bringing this important but seriously depressing item to my attention:   http://www.theamericanconservative.co...    

“Three Streams of Gratitude for Jesus”

    Relatively late last year, we decided that Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture should mark the pivotal holidays of Christmas and Easter with a special article on each Friday immediately before them.  Not necessarily a scholarly article, but a reflective one, by a serious and seriously faithful person, that might be stimulating and inspiring [Read More...]

“Revisiting Golgotha and the Garden Tomb”

    This article made quite an impression on me when I finally read it (rather belatedly, because I  missed it when it first appeared):   http://rsc.byu.edu/archived/volume-4-...   I thought it appropriate, since today is Good Friday, to post a link to the piece.   I know that Dr. Chadwick (who is living right now [Read More...]

“Are Portlanders Anti-Science?”

    But I thought it was only those loons on the political and religious Right who hated and feared science!   http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/new...   Oregon is one of the least religious states in the Union, and Portland is one of America’s least religious cities.  Oregon is also, as it happens, one of America’s most politically [Read More...]

“The Real Issue on Paul Owen and the Maxwell Institute”

    Bill Hamblin weighs in:   http://www.patheos.com/blogs/enigmati...   My concern isn’t merely that the Maxwell Institute has published non-Mormon perspectives.  I pioneered that myself, by publishing articles by Michael Heiser and by (precisely) Paul Owen and Carl Mosser that were explicitly Evangelical and overtly critical of LDS claims.  I haven’t changed my view on [Read More...]

“Sorry to Disappoint the Social Justice Warriors, But the Faithful Won’t Yield on Religious Liberty”

    We won’t.   We can’t.   This is a fight that we can’t forego.   http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/...    

Children and the real meaning of Easter

    Easter tells us of something children can’t understand, because it addresses things they don’t yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness. Frederica Mathewes-Green

“So-Called Religious Freedom”

    Does the term religious freedom even refer to anything that’s actually real?  Contemporary elite journalism appears to think that it doesn’t: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/...    

“Freedom of Association is Burned at the Stake in Indiana”

      An attempt — quite right, in my view — to broaden the discussion about the Indiana RFRA law beyond the cartoonish misrepresentation that it’s a matter of religious fanaticism versus gays and lesbians.   In reality, this discussion should be neither about religion nor about homosexuals.   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...