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Mosiah 4

    In today’s reading, Mosiah 4, we continue with King Benjamin’s remarkable address.   I’ll single out four passages (from among many) that I really like:   1.   I love the exhortation to humility in verse 9.  It seems particularly apt in a time and a society in which many seem to think themselves wiser [Read More...]

“One Day to a Cubit”

    Here’s an interesting little article by astronomer Hollis Johnson, of Indiana University, about the Book of Abraham.  You may perhaps have missed it when it first appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture.  So, out of my boundless kindness, I’m mentioning it again here:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/one-...    

Did CBS suppress a videotape about Benghazi in order to help Obama’s reelection bid?

    A former CBS investigative reporter, Sharyl Attkisson, seems to think so:   http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obam...    

George Will: Hillary doesn’t seem so very inevitable these days

    http://www.newsmax.com/GeorgeWill/hil...   And consider this, too:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...    

Some wisdom for you

    It’s not original with me, but it’s good counsel, so I pass it on nonetheless:   Never hate people who’re jealous of you.   Respect their jealousy.  After all, they’re the ones who think you’re better than they are.    

“Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing”

    The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square perform Mack Wilberg’s wonderful arrangement of “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” — slightly more than six minutes of beauty and devotion:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPKpk...   Come thou fount of every blessing Tune my heart to sing thy grace Streams of mercy never ceasing [Read More...]

Families and Prosperity

    In case you missed it, here’s a link to an interesting article about the relationship between family stability and economic success:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   In our materialistic but divorce-friendly culture, studies like this one should be widely publicized.    

Another revolutionary insight

    It occurred to me today, over brunch at The Beachcomber, directly on the sand at Crystal Cove, why there’s a perfectly good explanation for the fact that even large surveys have failed to detect vampires:  The questions are poorly designed.   For example, if you ask whether anybody out there has been harmed [Read More...]

Why the Egyptians built the pyramids

    A revolutionary new explanation for the pyramids of Egypt has just occurred to me:   I suspect that the pyramids were originally painted black.  The ancient Egyptians hoped to lower the temperatures in the Nile Valley by constructing giant heat-absorbers, with maximum surface area.   Clever, once you understand it.   Unfortunately, given [Read More...]

Einstein on “fanatical atheists”

    “The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle.  They are creatures who — in their grudge against traditional religion as the ‘opium of the masses’ — cannot hear the music of the spheres.” Albert Einstein   Posted from [Read More...]