Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1195

Dwarfing the stable

How does the Light enter you?

    We tend to make more progress, spiritually, in times of stress, sorrow, opposition, and difficulty than in times of ease.  It’s rather like going to the gym, I suppose; exercise with thirty-pound weights builds more strength than does working out with half-pound weights.  Or, as the great thirteenth-century Muslim poet and mystic Jalal al-Din [Read More...]

“6 biblical stories that Hollywood should make into movies”

    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   Posted from Orlando, Florida    

“On bracketing the truth”

    The invaluable Greg Smith has posted interesting comments on the concept of “bracketing the truth” in academic discourse:   http://seesangelsinthearchitecture.wo...   Posted from Orlando, Florida    

Tim Ballard, Latter-day Saint

    I’m very proud that this man is a member of my church:   http://ldsmag.com/tim-ballard-and-the...   He is also, it turns out — and I just realized this a few days ago — the same man who authored this book:   http://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Hypothe...   See this website.   Posted from Orlando, Florida    

A new cosmological proof?

    “Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God – the design argument of Paley – updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one. . . .  Many [Read More...]

Christ, and everything else

    Posted from Orlando, Florida    

Music of Christmas 17

    I often really like Pentatonix.  In this case, though, I like the version by The Piano Guys much more:   http://www.christianpost.com/buzzvine...   What do you think?   Posted from Orlando, Florida      

Celebrate!

    I hope that everybody has noticed that today is 12-13-14.   Another such series won’t come around, I’m told, until the next century.   If you haven’t already celebrated, you need to get right on it.   Appropriately, perhaps, I’m sitting right now very near to a place called Celebration.   Posted from [Read More...]

My teaching, come January

    In response to the deafening demand to know what I’ll be teaching during Winter Semester 2015, starting in January, here are the three classes (apart from any possible individual “directed reading” courses that might arise) that I’ll be offering:   IHum 242 (Interdisciplinary Humanities) — Introduction to the Humanities of Islam — TTh [Read More...]