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A simple dietary practice that can reduce your risk of Type 2 diabetes by 18%

    Welcome to Sic et Non, your one-stop source for politics, scripture commentary, Middle Eastern news, mean-spirited hatefulness, and dietary advice:   http://video.foxnews.com/v/3911055887...    

Mosiah 20

    The remarkable story that begins in Mosiah 20, the chapter on which I’m commenting today, is a straightforward and interesting one.  But there’s a great deal that can be, and has been, said about it.   Here, for example, is an article by my longtime friend and former BYU and Maxwell Institute colleague [Read More...]

Ploni Almoni

    Here’s a valuable blog written by Stephen Smoot, a very bright student of the ancient Near East at BYU and, among other contributions, a frequent contributor to the scripture roundtables produced by The Interpreter Foundation:   http://plonialmonimormon.blogspot.com   Take a look at it!   (For the meaning of ploni almoni, see here.)   [Read More...]

Just another knee-jerk right-wing rag

    Add the Economist, which twice endorsed him for the presidency — in this fallen world, even a great magazine is flawed — to the chorus of those who disapprove of Mr. Obama’s diktat on immigration.   In its 22 November issue, the regular Economist writer known as “Lexington” has an article entitled “Barack [Read More...]

What God expects of us

Mosiah 19

    If your opinion of King Noah isn’t already low enough, today’s reading, Mosiah 19, will help you to lower it further.  Consider, for example, these passages:   “And the king commanded the people that they should flee before the Lamanites, and he himself did go before them” (19:9).  In other words, when danger [Read More...]

Wrapping up in San Diego

    I enjoyed a number of sessions here in San Diego.  I’ve already referred to at least three or four of them, but I might also mention sessions on theism and naturalism as rival candidates for grounding moral values and on the historicity of the New Testament miracle accounts, and various discussions sponsored by the International [Read More...]

The importance of humble patience

    Posted from San Diego, California  

“My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord”

    With its one hundredth scripture roundtable, The Interpreter Foundation reaches yet another symbolically important milestone:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scri...   In it, Shon Hopkin, Martin Tanner, and Bruce Webster discuss Matthew 1 and Luke 1, in connection with Lesson 2 from the 2015 Gospel Doctrine lesson manual.   Posted from San Diego, California  

A shocking Hollywood scandal!

    This man should never work again in that town.  He should be run out on a rail for his remarks:   http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/fa...   Unbelievable, in this day and age, that a popular Hollywood actor would say such horrifying things.   Posted from San Diego, California