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“I Will Write It in Their Hearts”

    In this, the ninety-second (92nd) scripture roundtable posted by The Interpreter Foundation, Shon Hopkin, Martin Tanner, and Bruce Webster focus on the Old Testament book of Jeremiah in a discussion keyed to Lesson 42 in the 2014 Gospel Doctrine manual:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scri...   Posted from Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii    

“I have made thee this day . . . an iron pillar”

    The Interpreter Foundation has now posted its ninety-first (91st) scripture roundtable.  This one, keyed to Lesson 41 in the 2014 Gospel Doctrine manual and focused on the book of Jeremiah, features Ben McGuire, Mike Parker, Daniel Peterson, and Bruce Webster:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scri...   Posted from Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii    

This story might strike you as vaguely familiar.

    The sixth in my little series — of which previous installments appear here, here, here, here, and here — taken from that intriguing essay by C. M. Hyde:   Here, he cites a history of the Sandwich Islands — that is, of the Hawaiian Islands — published by the Rev. Sheldon Dibble at Lahainaluna in 1843:   [Read More...]

A thought from the Qur’an

    “We have assigned a law and a path to each of you.  If God had so willed, He would have made you one community, but He wanted to test you through that which He has given you.  So compete in doing good: you will all return to God and He will make clear to you [Read More...]

Pretending that reality doesn’t exist

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article...   Based on this reasoning, I see no reason why other binary expressions — e.g., alive and dead, left and right, up and down, right and wrong, smart and stupid, black and white, and so forth — shouldn’t also be retired.   Pretty soon, if all goes well, we won’t be able [Read More...]

Dogma, and two kinds of people

    “There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don’t know it.” G. K. Chesterton, “The Mercy of Mr. Arnold Bennett,” Fancies vs. Fads Posted from Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii  

Even the food tastes better in places like this.

    Posted from Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii    

2 Nephi 18

    I actually discussed an important aspect of today’s reading (2 Nephi 18 = Isaiah 8) yesterday, so I won’t revisit that topic in this post.  But the focus today is related to yesterday’s, and it concerns the international political situation of Isaiah’s time — probably in the period 735-731 BC.     The [Read More...]

Of the good and the best

    The good can sometimes — indeed, quite frequently — be the enemy of the best.   Of the many things that compete for investments of our time, energy, and even money, we can only choose a relative few.  So we should choose wisely.   Even if we don’t choose wisely, however, we’ll still [Read More...]

A Hawaiian Noah?

    Pursuing, yet again, my little second-hand survey of Hawaiian mythology, and once again citing C. M. Hyde’s opening essay in Thomas Thrum’s Hawaiian Folk Tales (1907): “In the Hawaiian group there are several legends of the Flood.  One legend relates that in the time of Nuu, or Nana-nuu (also pronounced lana, that is, floating), the flood, [Read More...]