Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1161

A positive article in the Huffington Post (!) about LDS/LGBT relations

      Who woulda thunk it?   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tracy-h...   Of course, as an anonymous-message-board-poster-certified hater of everyone who isn’t white, conservative, and fanatically Mormon like myself, I imagine that I’m against such friendly meetings.    

“Only in sleep,” again

    Roughly a year ago, I posted an entry about an exquisitely beautiful piece of choral music that I had just heard for the first time.  (I provided the words of the moving Sara Teasdale poem on which it’s based, which might prove useful.)  Unfortunately, the best online recording of the piece that I could find [Read More...]

“We hide the word ‘Catholic’ from prospective students”

    Nearly three decades ago, when I first joined the faculty of Brigham Young University (after having fallen in love with the place as an undergraduate), I might well have read this article with a complacent (perhaps even somewhat superior) sense of “it can’t happen here”:   http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclus...   These days?  Not so much. [Read More...]

“In the gospel, faith must come first”

    A very good article in the Deseret News by Taylor Halverson:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

Seven Mormon blogs (other than mine)

    Just a reminder of several Mormon-oriented blogs by people whom I like:   http://fornspollfira.blogspot.com   http://www.patheos.com/blogs/enigmati...   https://seesangelsinthearchitecture.w...   http://www.studioetquoquefide.com   http://www.plonialmonimormon.com   http://scripturalmormonism.blogspot.ie   They’ve each added one or more entries since last I mentioned them.   And don’t forget this one, either, from another friend:   http://etherscave.blogspot.com   I’m sure that [Read More...]

Speaking on Islam (Bountiful, Utah, on Tuesday night)

    I suppose there’s a slight chance that somebody out there might be interested in this:   http://davisclipper.com/pages/full_st...    

The Prophet Muhammad on God’s forgiveness

    “A prostitute was forgiven by Allah, because, passing by a panting dog near a well and seeing that the dog was about to die of thirst, she took off her shoe, and, tying it with her head-cover, drew out some water for it.  So Allah forgave her because of that.” Cited in the [Read More...]

Recommitting to family history and temple service

    “‘Prepare as many names for the temple as baptisms you perform in the temple, and help someone else to do the same.”  (Elder Neil L. Andersen, Council of the Twelve Apostles)   Elder Neil L. Andersen, a member of the Council of the Twelve, issued a renewed and expanded challenge for family history [Read More...]

New Testament 75

    Matthew 7:24-27 Compare Luke 6:47-49   The image of the house built upon a rock is a memorable one, and clearly understandable.   The fundamental point, obviously, is that we should found our lives upon the truth about God.   It can be extended, though, to illustrate (among other things) the idea that, [Read More...]

“How one stupid tweet ruined Justine Sacco’s life”

    Barbara and ER Roberts shared this New York Times link with me, presumably because they’re aware that I’ve had considerable experience myself — quite continuously over many years, though on a much smaller scale — with the sort of online mobbing, the malicious and anonymous bullying, that it describes:   http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/...   I’m a [Read More...]