Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1172

“The Christian example for modernizing Islam”

    I’ve tried this link several times, and it’s worked for me.  I hope it will continue to work for you, but my experiences with linking to the Wall Street Journal have, thus far, been negative.  Kevin Madigan, a historian of Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, offers his perspective on the current situation in [Read More...]

“Absence of White House strategy makes ISIS, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan wars unwinnable”

    A trio of formerly high-ranking military officers — now retired, or they wouldn’t be able to speak so freely — testify to the painful truth:   http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2...    

“Astronomers discover a replica solar system”

    Thanks to Michael Davidson for bringing this intriguing item to my notice:   http://news.yale.edu/2015/01/27/astro...    

“Religious freedom and refusing service”

    The indispensable Cassandra Showell Hedelius weighs in with a calm and legally-informed piece, commenting on the Church’s Tuesday news conference regarding discrimination and religious liberty:   http://ldsmag.com/religious-freedom-a...    

“Rethinking materialism in science”

    This week’s installment of my continuing assault on rationality and human kindness has appeared in the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

Washington Post: “Mitt Romney still has a Mormon problem”

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/t...   I think, regrettably, that there’s a great deal of truth in this.    

Disarming fools

    “I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.” Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)   Of course, today, we would need to get computers out of such hands.  But fools are all over the internet.  They infest newspaper comments sections.  And, as has been pointed [Read More...]

Glenn Beck offers to help tutor Pope Francis

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/...   I actually think that Glenn Beck may be on to something here (about the Pope’s background in Latin America and how it’s formed him).  And I would love to include the Pope in a tutorial about the benefits — for the poor and the middle class, as well as for the [Read More...]

New Testament 54

    Matthew 5:17-20 Compare Mark 13:31; Luke 16:16-17   There are those, particularly among Evangelical Protestants, who sometimes seem (to me, at least) to come perilously close to teaching an antinomian view of Jesus — one for which rules of conduct are, in a sense, irrelevant.   Today’s reading provides little support for such [Read More...]

Charles Hard Townes

    Charles H. Townes, who won the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the laser, died yesterday at the age of 99.   I wrote about Professor Townes a few months ago:   http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeter...   He was not only a superb physicist but a vocally believing Christian.  “Impossible!” some will cry. [Read More...]