Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1146

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...]

“Because He Lives”

    http://www.mormon.org/easter?cid=emai...   Please share this.   At this season.   At all seasons.   Because he really does live.    

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...]