Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1152

Opposing Church leadership at the next General Conference

    My friend Michael De Groote calls my attention to a plan to oppose the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the Church’s upcoming annual General Conference.   Calling themselves “a group of concerned members” of the Church, its organizers seek “to express feedback, opinions, dissent, or dissatisfaction about [Read More...]

“Reflections of ‘Urim’: Hebrew Poetry Sheds Light on the Directors/Interpreters Mystery”

    TGIF!   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/refl...   Posted from Monterey, California    

Life is hard, and then you die

    It feels so good to be back home in California!   http://www.jazzbashbythebay.com   Of course, I’ll have to work tonight and tomorrow to make up for this.  But I don’t teach on Fridays, so . . .   Posted from Monterey, California    

An official Church statement: “Why Religious Freedom Matters to Mormons”

    http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article...   Posted from San Jose, California    

“Nourishing the Aging Brain”

    My first reaction to this article was disappointment and (some) anger.  Nourishing the Aging Brain has been the working title for my projected autobiography, which, of course, focuses largely on my daily experiences with Krispy Kreme doughnuts over the past eight or nine decades.   Still, I sometimes try to share practical, relevant information [Read More...]

Assyrian Christians, the latest captives of the “Islamic State”

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03...   It was my privilege, for a short period, to work with and know a bishop of the Assyrian Church of the East, Mar Bawai Soro.  A fine man.  A good man, and kind.   Posted from San Jose, California    

“World’s deadliest volcanoes identified”

    You might just be a bit surprised:   http://www.nature.com/news/world-s-de...    Posted from San Jose, California    

“Taking a leaf from the Armenians’ book”

    Few Western Christian realize that the first country in the Old World to become Christian wasn’t Constantine’s Roman Empire.  It was Armenia.   And one of Armenia’s great medieval figures, St. Gregory of Narek (ca. AD 951-1003), a monk, poet, theologian, and mystic, has just been declared a “doctor” (i.e., a major, recognized [Read More...]

Meet Earth’s other moon!

    Ha!  You thought we had only one?   Think again:   http://www.realclearscience.com/artic...    

“5 places women shouldn’t spend their travel dollars”

    How on earth did I manage to miss this piece of blithering idiocy when it was published in the New York Post back on 1 December of last year?   http://nypost.com/2014/12/01/5-places...   Out of all of the places on the planet . . .   Read it and laugh.  Or weep.