Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1151

Royal Skousen’s handout for Saturday morning’s conference is now online.

    A very useful set of links and examples, even if you don’t attend the symposium tomorrow morning:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/roya...   But you ought to attend.    

“John L. Sorenson’s Complete Legacy: Reviewing ‘Mormon’s Codex’”

    Brant A. Gardner and Mark Alan Wright collaborated to produce the second of this week’s two articles in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/john...   Two articles today.  A significant academic symposium tomorrow.  Plans moving forward over the past couple of days for two more symposia.  And at least one new scripture roundtable [Read More...]

“Lehi the Smelter: New Light on Lehi’s Profession”

    Neal Rappleye has contributed one of this week’s two new articles in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/lehi...   I’m pleased beyond expression at the extraordinary and continuing productivity of the Interpreter Foundation, grateful to all those who contribute the time, effort, and material support needed to make it happen.   [Read More...]

“Church Applauds Passage of Utah Senate Bill 296″

    Gary Herbert, the governor of Utah, has signed into law a landmark bill designed to balance religious liberty with anti-discrimination protections.  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints played a not-insignficant role in the legislative history of this new law:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article...    

“Where is the Islamic Renaissance?”

      http://www.patheos.com/blogs/crossexa...   This is a question that has long occupied my mind, and that now seems to me urgently pressing — not just as a matter of academic curiosity but for the welfare of the world as a whole.    

“Historical criticism and historicity”

    From somewhere in the eastern hemisphere, a sleep-deprived Bill Hamblin issues a challenge:   http://www.patheos.com/blogs/enigmati...   Personally, I would love to see a direct, civil, substantive exchange between the two.   For one thing, I think there’s been some equivocating and miscommunication, and I would really like to see things cleared up.  Though [Read More...]

“Why don’t American Protestants care that Middle Eastern Christians are dying?”

    A strongly worded complaint from a mainstream Protestant:   http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/20...    

“Church donates ‘Meet the Mormons’ proceeds to the American Red Cross”

      True to their natures, I’m afraid, some particularly cynical critics of Mormonism predicted that the Church would never give a dime to the American Red Cross, notwithstanding its public statements that it would do so.   But, of course, it’s now given the money, just as no normal, reasonable person ever doubted [Read More...]

What is “goodness”?

    “Goodness is about character — integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.” Dennis Prager

“The 12 Principles of Conservatism”

    The so-called “Sharon Statement,” drafted by M. Stanton Evans (who died on 3 March, at the age of eighty), was adopted at the meeting that founded Young Americans for Freedom in 1960.  The meeting took place at the Sharon, Connecticut, estate of the late William F. Buckley Jr.  Hence the name.  Apart from [Read More...]