Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1204

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    

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...]