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A Qur’anic account of the annunciations of John and Jesus

  I’ve borrowed the Arabic text — a portion of Surat Maryam, the “Chapter of Mary,” Surah 19 — from Sahih International, and have (very) slightly modified their translation:   A reminder of the mercy of your Lord to His servant Zechariah When he called privately to his Lord. He said, “My Lord, truly my bones have [Read More...]

“Mormons return to state they once fled”

    An article about Mormonism and Missouri, in a place where you might not have predicted it:   http://america.aljazeera.com/articles...    

“Looking again at one of the greatest of all stories”

    A Christmas column of mine in the Deseret News from last year:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

Music of Christmas 25

    Of course we’re going to do more Händel this Christmas!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f7jh...    

“The Shield of Faith Against the Fiery Darts of Doubt and Fear”

    Bianca Palmieri Lisonbee, a dear friend of ours who currently serves with her husband as he presides over the Brazil Salvador Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shared the following personal essay with me a few days ago, and has kindly given me permission to post it here.   [Read More...]

Christmas Cheer 27

    A musical Mormon flash mob at the Complexe Desjardins in Montreal:   http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-m...   Very nicely done.    

“Knowest thou the condescension of God?”

    C. S. Lewis’s mainstream Christian Trinitarianism was rather different from the Latter-day Saint view of the Godhead, but I like his image, in Mere Christianity, of what it meant for the Son to descend from the heavens and take upon himself mortal flesh:   The Second Person in God, the Son, became human [Read More...]

New Testament 7

    Matthew 1:18-25 Luke 2:1-7   The decree that goes out from Caesar Augustus (Luke 2:1) isn’t precisely that all the world should be “taxed,” I think, but that it should be “registered” or “enrolled” (apographesthai, ἀπογράφεσθαι) for taxation.   And the same verse’s “all the world” (pasan ten oikoumenen, πᾶσαν τὴν οἰκουμένην) refers, of course, to [Read More...]

Christmas Cheer 26

    Out on the road late this afternoon, I listened to a fragment of a Christmas program on KBYU-FM.  I believe that it may have been called Glad Tidings.   As I drove, I was able to hear part of an essay (I think), written and read (I think) by Jerry Johnston of the Deseret [Read More...]

“Christmas celebrates part of the divine plan”

    Here, for what it’s worth, is a Christmas column that I wrote for the Deseret News back in 2010:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/70...