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“The Sermon on the Mount: ‘A More Excellent Way’”

    Craig Foster, John Gee, Cassandra Hedelius, and Bruce Webster gathered for The Interpreter Foundation’s Scripture Roundtable 106, which focuses on Matthew 5:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scri...    

Science and materialism

    “Scientific materialism is neither an implication nor a presupposition of doing science. Rather it is a metaphysical and sometimes religious stance that some people have toward science.”  Angus Menuge, Agents under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science

How to be a success

    Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.  (Josh Billings)  

A Palestinian Christian voice from mid-2014

    Many Americans think of the Arab/Israeli conflict as one between Muslims and Jews.  That’s not accurate.  Many Palestinians are Christians.   Here’s one Palestinian Christian voice, from the first half of 2014:   http://time.com/110920/naim-ateek-pal...    

New Testament 41

    Luke 5:1-11 Compare Matthew 13:1-3; 4:18-22; Mark 4:1-2; 1:16-20; John 21:1-11   On one level, it seems a fairly insignificant miracle.  But it’s a teaching moment.   “You’re impressed by a miraculous catch of fish?” Jesus implicitly asks his astonished disciples.  “Don’t be afraid.  From this point on, you’ll be catching men.”   [Read More...]

“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...