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Mosiah 17

    Three notes about today’s reading, Mosiah 17:   1.   Royal Skousen suggests a “conjectural emendation” — in other words, an adjustment to a text based on other considerations but lacking direct manuscript support — for Mosiah 17:13:   He suspects that, when it’s said of Abinadi that his royal executioners “scourged his skin [Read More...]

Faith and Seeing

Another reason to favor free markets

    I’ve finally read a brief article in the Economist that I’ve been meaning to get to for quite a while, from an issue back on 27 September 2014:   China’s South-North Water Diversion Project has cost tens of billions of dollars and — the country is ruled by a dictatorship, remember — evicted more than [Read More...]

Mosiah 16

    1.   Today’s reading, Mosiah 16, suggests to me that it isn’t mere honest, sincere error that God punishes, but actual rebellion.   The wicked, says verse 2, are those who “would not hearken unto the voice of the Lord.”  (The would not here probably isn’t a simple past tense of the verb to be; [Read More...]

Eleven-year-old football sensation

    Have you heard of Sam Gordon?  Also known as “Sweet Feet”?   Did you know that Samantha — that’s her full first name — is a Latter-day Saint?   http://espn.go.com/espnw/athletes-lif...   Posted from San Diego, California

Time well spent

    I always feel that, if I’ve been to the temple on a given day, it’s been a good and productive day whether or not I accomplish anything else.   Today has been a good day.   We participated in a Spanish-language session, which was fun.   Posted from San Diego, California    

Tales from the Dark Side

    Today is the fifty-first anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  I’m an officially certified geezer now, and I can still remember aspects of that day — and of the days that followed — with considerable clarity.   Many still puzzle over that assassination.   A few of us, however, are puzzled [Read More...]

“President Obama’s Immigration Order: The Right Thing in the Wrong Way”

    Here’s someone who agrees with the substance of Mr. Obama’s immigration decree, but disagrees with the method by which he’s imposing it:   http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/a...   I, too, have called for separating the substance from the manner.  One might even think that President Obama is right, and that Congress was wrong, but, if the [Read More...]

Evil Muslims, most likely.

    Before you condemn Islam for the actions of the jerks who did this (and who’re probably Muslims), remember that their victim (as so often happens in such cases) is himself a Muslim.   An imam, no less.   http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/...   Thanks to Allen Hansen for bringing this story to my attention.   “If [Read More...]

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