Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1190

“Prophet’s birthday fits with the season”

    This is the column that I published back in 2010 in connection with Joseph Smith’s 23 December birthday:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/70...    

Fortunately, the White Witch hasn’t turned up here, yet.

“A nearby solar system shares features with our own”

    The current issue of Scientific American includes a brief article, entitled “The Dust Belt Next Door,” about the star Tau Ceti, which is located just twelve light-years from Earth.   It has been suggested — though resolution has literally not yet been achieved on this question — that Tau Ceti has five planets [Read More...]

Joseph Smith: The Cambridge Years

    Bill Hamblin and I have used this imaginary book or article title for years, and Bill has just published a nice little blog entry using it:   http://www.patheos.com/blogs/enigmati...    

Words of rain and thunder

Christmas Cheer 22

    There’s so much hatred and eve and violence in the world that one is sometimes tempted to despair.  But there’s also remarkable goodness:   http://link.brightcove.com/services/p...    

Bill Maher, deep thinker

    I came across a striking statement today that’s attributed to the alleged comedian Bill Maher.  “Faith,” says Mr. Maher, “means making a virtue out of not thinking.”   Now, I can’t plausibly be described as a fan of Bill Maher.   I believe that I’ve recounted the story somewhere of sitting with my [Read More...]

All we like sheep have gone astray.

Christmas Cheer 21

    A fascinating story from Christmas season of 1944 in war-ravaged Central Europe:   http://www.thoughts-about-god.com/chr...    

“All real life is meeting”

    Chapter 14 of That Hideous Strength, the concluding novel in C. S. Lewis’s brilliant “Perelandra trilogy,” as it’s often called, is entitled “Real Life is Meeting.”   The title comes from a passage in the Austrian-born Israeli Jewish thinker Martin Buber’s famous 1923 book Ich und Du (“I and Thou”):  “All real life [Read More...]