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President Kimball on science and religion

    “Modern scientific findings harmonize with revelation through the ages. No conflict exists between the gospel and any truth. . . .  All true principles are a part of the gospel of Jesus Christ. There is no principle that we need to fear.” Spencer W. Kimball    

I’ll be there tonight, in sha’a Allah

“Fifty Shades of Grey”

    I think I was among the last to hear about the novel Fifty Shades of Grey.  It was already a publishing phenomenon when it first swam across my radar screen.   I’ve never leafed through it.  I’ve never held it.  I’m not sure I’ve ever so much as seen a copy.   But [Read More...]

New Testament 67

    Matthew 6:25-34 Compare 12:22-32.   These verses contain some of the most stunningly impractical and even, in a sense, dangerous and irresponsible advice in the Sermon on the Mount.   Who could possibly survive, living in this manner?  Do you really want to belong to a society where nobody worries about, or takes [Read More...]

“Historicity and the problem of ‘getting at’ the past”

    The latest installment of the biweekly Deseret News column written by William Hamblin and yr obd’t servant is now up:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

“Dear Justice Kennedy: An Open Letter from the Child of a Loving Gay Parent”

    Another of those stories which, if it pointed the other way and if I were to doubt it or in any way fail to take it at face value, would reveal me (at this point, I should think, rather redundantly) to be a cold-hearted, bigoted, and unfeeling cad who’s indifferent, because of his fanaticism, [Read More...]

“Mormon woman volunteers to be whipped to save Saudi blogger”

    An interesting story:   http://janariess.religionnews.com/201...    

My new creed

    “The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.” George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)      

Dreaming of Democratic presidential tickets

    I’ve signed petitions encouraging Elizabeth Warren (the extremely liberal and rather blonde Massachusetts Democrat who is our only Native American senator) and Bernie Sanders (the Vermont socialist and senator who, although listed as Independent, caucuses — who could possibly have predicted it? — with the Democrats) to toss their hats into the ring for [Read More...]

“Father is a Man: The Remarkable Mention of the Name ‘Abish’ in Alma 19:16 and Its Narrative Context”

    It’s that day of the week again, and, once again, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture delivers a new article:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/fath...   Read, learn, and enjoy!