Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1156

“When ‘Penthouse’ Magazine Came Calling”

    An amusing story from a prominent Evangelical thinker whom I know slightly and respect greatly:   http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclus...    

Love your enemies!

    These guys were almost as mean-spirited as I’m reputed to be:   “He would make a lovely corpse.” - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)   “I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.” - Irvin S. Cobb   “I worship the quicksand he walks in.” - Art Buchwald   “I have never [Read More...]

A brief interview with two missionaries, recently held captive in New Mexico

    http://www.koat.com/news/mormon-missi...    

“Circle of Life”

    If there’s life elsewhere in the galaxy, or elsewhere in the universe, a recent study by Mary Anne Limbach and Edwin L. Turner of Princeton University suggests that it will occur in solar systems with a relatively high number of planets following roughly circular orbits.   The necessity of circular or nearly-circular orbits [Read More...]

New Testament 85

    Matthew 8:5-13 Luke 7:1-10 John 4:46-54 Compare Mark 2:1; 7:30   The harmony that I’m using as the basis of this exercise — Kurt Aland, ed., Synopsis of the Four Gospels: Greek-Gnglish Edition of the Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum (14th ed.) — plainly believes that the incident recounted in John 4 is the same [Read More...]

“New Policy Prioritizes Family Time at Temples”

    This is really good news, and a great idea:   https://www.lds.org/church/news/new-p...    

A proposed Arabian Book of Mormon site briefly discussed in an Omani newspaper

    http://www.muscatdaily.com/Archive/Om...    

“The arc of history: the worship of a false god”

    Although Gary Lawrence’s article doesn’t mention this issue at all, I’ve been repeatedly told that I’m on “the wrong side of history” with regard to the redefinition of marriage.   http://ldsmag.com/the-arc-of-history-...   I find the whole notion of “the wrong side of history” — or of “the right side,” for that matter — [Read More...]

“I am the bread of life”

    In the 110th scripture roundtable posted by The Interpreter Foundation, Jeffrey Bradshaw, Cassandra Hedelius, Stephen Smoot, and McKay White discuss New Testament Gospel Doctrine lesson 12 (which is to say, John 5-6, Mark 6, and Matthew 14):   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scri...    

“The Ugliest Churches in the World”

    http://www.realclearreligion.org/list...   Say what you will about the predictability of Latter-day Saint church architecture.  At least we didn’t make this list!