Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1209

Rhinorex condrupus!

    A cool BYU dinosaur discovery in eastern Utah:   http://news.byu.edu/archive14-sep-rhi...   Posted from Newport Beach, California    

President Eyring headed to Vatican, will address gathering on marriage there

    Some of you may have missed this interesting story:   http://www.sltrib.com/home/1779221-15...   Posted from Newport Beach, California    

“Missionary”

    Who needs Meet the Mormons?   Wanna know the real truth about those dangerous, grossly unfashionable, politically retrograde Mormon cultists?  The sordid stories that they don’t want you to know?   Then this is the movie for you!   Trust Hollywood to portray the reality of families, religion, and politics.   Posted from Newport Beach, [Read More...]

“Cancel the Midterms”?

    It’s possible that today’s midterm elections may not go entirely according to Democratic preferences.   So should midterm elections even be held?   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...   Posted from Newport Beach, California  

“The case for a Romney three-peat”

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article...   Posted from Newport Beach, California    

On patiently bearing wrongs

    “To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.”  (St. Thomas Aquinas)   Posted from Newport Beach, California

Enos

      Today’s reading, the single-chapter book of Enos, offers one of the most popular brief stories in the Book of Mormon, a story that is often cited to illustrate points about prayer, forgiveness, and many other topics.  And rightly so.   I’ll pick up a couple of aspects of it.   First, any parent, and perhaps [Read More...]

Apostle Scientists

    I’ve just read a little bit about Elder Joseph F. Merrill, who served as a member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1931 until his death in 1952.   He held a doctorate in physics from Johns Hopkins University.   For a [Read More...]

You may kiss my ring

    On Saturday, while I was over at his place and our wives were at a Cambodian dance concert, my friend Mike Davis introduced me to two family history websites that I should already have known about.  They’re lots of fun.   The first is Puzzilla, which allows you to see your ancestry in [Read More...]

American shame in Anbar

    When General David Petraeus successfully revamped United States counterinsurgency doctrine in Iraq a few years ago, one of the cornerstones of his new approach was building trust with Iraqis, encouraging them to cooperate with American forces (and to share information about the location of insurgents) in the confidence that they would not be jeopardizing their [Read More...]