Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1170

Suicide, Mormonism, and young gays

    Many claims are made about Mormonism and an alleged epidemic of suicides among young gays.  These claims are often made in an effort to suggest that there’s something wrong and dangerous about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.   Do these allegations hold up?  Tom Stringham puts them under the lens: [Read More...]

Queen Rania of Jordan on Paris terrorism: “The antithesis of Islam”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01...    

A reminder regarding 14 March

    In case you missed my earlier announcement or have forgotten it, I want to call your attention, once again, to an interesting conference that’s coming up in slightly more than a month and a half:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/save...   Some of us will be meeting this coming Saturday to make specific plans for the conference. [Read More...]

Homosexuality and Incest

    (I suspect that this post’s title will attract a bit of attention.)   A few days ago, I posted a link to the story of a young woman — an adult, though not by much (chronologically speaking) — who would like to marry her father, to whom she recently, happily, lost her virginity.   [Read More...]

New Testament 50-51

    Matthew 4:24; 5:1-12 Compare Mark 3:7-13; Luke 6:17-23   I have a very great deal to say about the Beatitudes, but not the time to say very much of it right now.  I hope to eventually write a small book on them.   For right now, I’ll content myself with a brief comment [Read More...]

The text of the archbishop’s remarks at BYU

    For those who might be interested, here’s the full text of the remarks given at Brigham Young University on Friday by Charles Chaput, Roman Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia.  They’re entitled “The Great Charter at 800″:   http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclus...   I agree with what Archbishop Chaput had to say, and found his presentation quite engaging.   [Read More...]

“Meet the Pope’s Astronomer”

    An interesting article about Guy Consolmagno, the official Vatican astronomer:   http://www.religionnews.com/2014/12/0...   He’s currently slated, by the way, to address an Interpreter Foundation conference (in Utah) on science and religion during the spring of 2016, somewhat more than a year from now.        

Looking forward to Yafo

    The itinerary that we follow on our tours to Israel invariably takes us to Tel Aviv on the first night.  We stay in the Dan Panorama Hotel — great name, no? — which is right across the street from the park and the beach that you can see (in the distance, across the [Read More...]

“‘How I lost and regained my faith’: LDS man shares 18 lessons he learned”

    You may have missed this:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

New Testament 49

    Matthew 5:1; 10:1-4 Mark 3:13-19 Luke 6:12-16   In the biblical account of Moses, that prophet goes up onto a mountain to receive instruction and to be given his commission from the Lord.   I think it not coincidental that, in these New Testament accounts, Jesus climbs a mountain and, from there, gives [Read More...]