Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1198

“Of faith and moonbeams”

    This week’s column for the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

Operation Underground Railroad

      You know, or you certainly should know by now, that I’m seeking donations to support and expand the work of The Interpreter Foundation:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/a-le...   And I’ve been very encouraged by the response thus far.  I’m grateful to those who have contributed.  We still have some considerable distance to go, but [Read More...]

“How to share the Gospel during the holidays”

    A helpful and quite practical article:   http://lds.net/blog/hasten/sharing-th...   Anybody can do at least some of these things.    

Music of Christmas 7

    A remarkable a cappella version of a very popular Christmas carol:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_MG...   The carol was written by Katherine Kennicott Davis, an American classical music composer and teacher, in 1941.  (She originally called it “The Carol of the Drum.”)  The Trapp Family Singers — think The Sound of Music – recorded it in [Read More...]

“Pop Francis: Why Everyone Loves the Pope”

    An interesting three-page article in the leading Evangelical Protestant magazine that’s a bit deeper and more serious than its title might seem to suggest:   http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2...    

TV shows with religious themes at Christmas time

    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

“God and the Astronomers”

    “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who [Read More...]

Bridging the “Two Cultures”?

      It seems obvious to me that, in a society dominated to a large extent by technology, non-scientists ought to have at least a nodding acquaintance with basic science and with minimally the rudiments of what’s going on at today’s scientific frontiers.   Back in 1959, the English physical chemist and novelist C. [Read More...]

Heroic women in Kobani

    I want to say, again, how proud I am of the Kurds who’ve fought off the forces of the “Islamic State” death cult and defended Kobani.  Here’s a story, brought to my notice by my Australian friend Ray Agostini, about a young woman who has been part of that defense:   http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/12/...   [Read More...]

Mosiah 26

    In this chapter, Mosiah 26, as I’ve argued at length elsewhere, we see the rise of a church, in the sense of a volitional or intentional sub-community within the larger Nephite society, in the Book of Mormon.  And it’s clear from Alma’s puzzlement, and the need for special revelation to get him out [Read More...]