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“Israel’s threat from within”

    Fareed Zakaria isn’t a fan of Benjamin Netanyahu.  But the thing that strikes me here is his explanation of the nature of Iran’s repeated call for the destruction of Israel:   http://fareedzakaria.com/2015/03/27/i...   It’s not quite what the news media often tell us, and deserves consideration.   Posted from Bountiful, Utah    

“New York Times whitewashes Iran’s religious oppression”

    Have I noted before that I’m not much of a fan of the New York Times?   https://www.commentarymagazine.com/20...    

“Why I don’t call myself a Mormon feminist”

    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

“The Pope’s Planetologists”

    http://www.methodquarterly.com/2015/0...   Guy Consolmagno is currently slated to address an Interpreter Foundation conference on science and religion, roughly a year from now.    

Sad news out of England

      http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015...   I still own this album on vinyl:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlETE...   John Renbourn’s guitar work captivated me, and I’m happy to say that one of my sons found that very album, years ago, on his own, and was captivated, too.    

Bad punctuation as capital offense

    “No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, “Good food at it’s best”, you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.”  Lynn Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance [Read More...]

Today is Hugh Nibley’s birthday

    He would have been 105 years old today.   You can read something of his testimony here.    

“Top NBC Foreign Correspondent: US Strategy in the Middle East Leaving Region ‘Confused’”

    You know that things are getting bad if you’re Barack Obama and NBC is beginning to criticize you:   http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/...   It would certainly be nice to have a president!    

“Why Spring Gets about 30 Seconds Shorter Every Year”

    http://www.livescience.com/50194-spri...   Did you know about this?    

“Sustaining the Brethren”

    Another Friday, another article in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture.  And this one is particularly relevant around as we move toward the end of March and the beginning of April:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/sust...   I think it should be pretty clear which side the Interpreter Foundation is on.  I hope that our stance [Read More...]