Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1192

“It hurts to be Mormon right now.”

    Here’s a blog entry that, I’m told, is causing quite the stir in some parts of the web.  Thanks to Nathaniel Hancock for bringing it to my attention:   http://donnacarolvoss.com/faith/hurts...   I appreciate the sentiment behind and motivating it.   I have to confess that, for me, being a Mormon continues to feel very [Read More...]

Music of Christmas 24

    Something wonderfully beautiful:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqm-h...   The lyrics vary.  (The song was originally written in French, too.)  But here’s one version:   1. Whence is the goodly fragrance flowing, Stealing our senses all away, never the like did come a-blowing, Shepherds, in flow’ry fields of May, Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing, Stealing [Read More...]

“Will We Still Enjoy Pinot Noir?”

    Kimberly A. Nicholas grew up on her family’s Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard in Sonoma, California.  Today, though, she’s an associate professor of “sustainability science” at Sweden’s Lund University, from which she advises grape growers and winemakers around the world.   She has an article in the current issue of Scientific American entitled “Will We [Read More...]

“What did ancient Babylonian songs sound like? Something like this.”

    Jabra Ghneim brought this fascinating item to my attention:   http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/wh...   I really, really like the music.    

Orson Scott Card, for “Interpreter”

    For those who may have missed it, this year’s Christmas message from The Interpreter Foundation was written by Orson Scott Card:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/chri...    

Music of Christmas 5

    I inadvertently left out the fifth installment of my “Music of Christmas” posts.  So here it is, by way of penitence:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1WHN...   Like so much wonderful music, Still, Still, Still comes from Salzburg.  (Among other things, a fellow named Mozart was born there.)   The very title seems to put me right [Read More...]

From a poem on Christmas by C. S. Lewis

A superb and beautiful gift for Christmas. If you hurry.

    In God’s Image and Likeness 2 is the first of the four books that The Interpreter Foundation has published thus far:   http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Image-Like...   Time is short.  You might be able to get this book through Amazon.com soon enough, but you would have to really scurry.  Your best bet, if you’re in Utah, [Read More...]

“Why We Have Free Will”

    Some relatively recent experiments — notably those by the late Benjamin Libet of the University of California at San Francisco in the 1980s and another study, published in 2013, by John-Dylan Haynes of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin — have shown that neurons fire in our brains before we become aware [Read More...]

14 March: Save the Date!

    Mark Saturday, 14 March 2015, on your calendars.   We’re planning a conference on the language of the Book of Mormon for that date, on the campus of Brigham Young University.   There will be some astonishing information at the conference.   I’ll post further details when they’re available.