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New Testament 112

    Matthew 12:9-14 Mark 3:1-6 Luke 6:6-11   I really should have connected this entry with the previous one, “New Testament 111,” because it concerns the same fundamental issue.   The Pharisees overlook the miracle of the divine healing in their zeal to find an accusation against Jesus.   It would be rather like [Read More...]

A significant discovery relating to Church history

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

What dies at death?

    “Death is only the death of death, not the death of life.”  (Muhammad Ankan)    

New Testament 111

    Matthew 12:1-8 Mark 2:23-28 Luke 6:1-5   Latter-day Saints take the concept of the Sabbath very seriously, though I sometimes think that we can easily clutter it up far too much and often do so.   But we don’t make a fetish of it.   For that matter, I might add, neither do [Read More...]

An anniversary that I’ll never forget

    Precisely three years ago, I woke up happily unaware that I was beginning the worst day of my life to that point, and that it would mark the beginning of the worst several months that I had ever experienced.  The year 2012 was a miserable one for me.  This was the most painful thing, but [Read More...]

“America must pummel ISIS”

    An interesting statement of a hawkish stance on responding to the so-called “Islamic State”:   http://nationalinterest.org/feature/u...   My attention was caught by the authors’ distinction, and how they made it, between the military vulnerability of the “Islamic State” and the relatively elusive character of al-Qa‘ida.   It parallels quite closely the distinction that [Read More...]

“Can space expand faster than the speed of light?”

        For those of you who woke up this morning wondering about relativity, this will be an interesting read:   https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang...   Posted from Vancouver, British Columbia    

On a Sinking Ship and Its Captain

    My friend and former Maxwell Institute colleague has posted a remarkable story of what seems pretty clearly to be academic incompetence and malfeasance:   http://fornspollfira.blogspot.ca/2015...   This story didn’t occur at Brigham Young University.   Posted from Langley, British Columbia    

“Evidences and Witnesses of the Book of Mormon”

    On Saturday, I spoke to a relatively small audience at the University of British Columbia’s downtown Vancouver Robson campus on “The Perplexing Book of Mormon.”  That evening, I spoke to another modest audience at the Vancouver Stake Center about some of my favorite pieces of evidence for the authenticity and antiquity of the Book [Read More...]

On not taking certain critics seriously

    I don’t know anything about Cara Lynn Shultz.  But she seems to have some of the same anonymous critics that I do:   “It’s hard to take someone seriously when they leave you a note saying, ‘Your ugly.’ My ugly what? The idiot didn’t even know the difference between your and you’re.” Cara [Read More...]