Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1175

“John Dehlin and Censorship”

    Somebody has launched a website in order preemptively to counter the inevitable narrative from John Dehlin, his supporters, and the all-too-eager news media:   https://dearjohndehlin.wordpress.com/...    

This is one scary lady

    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/...    

Muslim call to prayer to be sounded over the campus of Duke University every Friday

    I haven’t heard the commentators weigh in on this subject yet, but I can pretty much write the script for some of them.  It will run along the following lines:  In the wake of the attack on Charlie Hebdo and that kosher grocery store in suburban Paris, a major and rather elite American [Read More...]

“The Wrong Kind of Book”

    My Deseret News column for this week has appeared, and, thus far, the critics are far from positively impressed.   I’m shocked — shocked — to find that grumbling is going on there!   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

“[He] took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses”

    In Interpreter Foundation scripture roundtable #105, Jeff Bradshaw, Craig Foster, Cassandra Hedelius, Dan Peterson, and Bob White discuss Mark 1-2, 4-5, and Luke 7, the New Testament chapters covered in Lesson 7 of the 2015 Gospel Doctrine lesson manual:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scri...    

“Meet the Arab Christians who want to fight for Israel”

    A few hours ago, I posted a link to an article by an Israeli leftist who refuses to serve in Israel’s military.  In response, Allen Hansen, an Israeli, shared with me this interesting item:   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world...   Do you still think that the Middle East and the Arab/Israeli conflict are simple and easily understood? [Read More...]

Signs of greatness?

      “If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.” Beryl Markham, West with the Night    

“Grotesque Double Standards on Religious Liberty in Atlanta”

    Late last night, I posted an item about the worrisome firing of Atlanta’s fire chief after his publication of a book in which, among many other things, he expressed his traditionally conservative viewpoint regarding same-sex “marriage.”   Here’s a good article on that subject and related matters by a Harvard-trained lawyer who has [Read More...]

Remembering Arthur Peacocke, MBE

    “Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.”  (Arthur Peacocke)   One of the most interesting recent thinkers on [Read More...]

“They straightway left their nets”

    In Interpreter Foundation scripture roundtable 104, now posted, Martin Tanner and Bruce Webster focus on 2015 Gospel Doctrine lesson 6 (Luke 4-6):   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scri...