Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1166

“Bakers Who Declined Service to Same-Sex Couple Face $150,000 Fine”

    http://dailysignal.com/2015/02/09/bak...    

A pair of Muslim denunciations of ISIS, and a memorial at BYU

    As I’ve observed, everywhere I do I’m inevitably asked why Muslims don’t condemn terrorism undertaken in the name of Islam.   Part of my invariable answer is that they do.   Here are a couple of relatively recent examples that I’ve been intending to post:   “Grand Mufti: Jordanian pilot’s murder not part [Read More...]

“On submitting my will to God’s”

    A very nice blog entry on what obedience means to one believing Latter-day Saint:   https://greatgourdini.wordpress.com/2...    

Karl Barth, on science and religion

    We act unbelievingly and disobediently when we despise or mistrust reasonable scientific inquiry or when we absolutize its methods and results, thus evading God’s truth and our responsibility to him. We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history. [Read More...]

Writing and higher education

    “Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.” Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)    

New Testament 73

    Matthew 7:15-20 Compare Luke 6:43-45   These verses contain one of the most obviously useful rules in scripture.   Sound religious teaching should have positive implications in day-to-day life.   Obviously, of course, any particular religious individual may be inferior, in terms of behavior, etc., to some particular irreligious or theologically-different individual.  And [Read More...]

A new editor for “Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought”

    I let my subscription to Dialogue lapse many years ago, and haven’t paid much attention to it since.   Doing so was partly a (tiny) protest.  I’m sure that nobody noticed it, there or anywhere else.   Mostly, though, it was because I’d been finding the journal boring, predictable, and depressing.  Every time [Read More...]

“John Dehlin and the Art of Interpersonal Terrorism”

    I myself am tired of the subject.   But there are things that, I think, need to be said, and things that need to be understood.  Particularly because there’s a great deal of posing and misrepresentation going on.  So, for those who’re still following the Dehlin case, I provide yet another link:   [Read More...]

“But where are the golden plates?”

    The latest in my four-year-long series of offenses in the Deseret News against reason, honesty, and good sense has now appeared:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

Obsession with celebrity

    “A man who is being delivered from the danger of a fierce lion doesn’t object, whether this service is performed by an unknown or an illustrious individual. Why, therefore, do people seek knowledge from celebrities?.” al-Ghazali (d. AD 1111)