Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1218

On the gravity of the threat posed by the Islamic State

    A British cabinet minister foresees potential disaster:   http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/...   Posted from Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii    

A thought from October 2014 conference

    Posted from Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii

This is a fantastically interesting case.

    I’ve talked with people who were there in Cokeville at the time, and have read a fair amount about the event.   I’m really looking forward to the film:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0r_Z...   I hope it will rekindle interest in a  remarkable story.   Posted from Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii    

Absolute freedom from bias?

    “It is assumed that the sceptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of scepticism.”  G. K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News (4 May 1907) Posted from Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii

I really want to see this.

    A surprising non-negative article in the Christian Post about the new film Meet the Mormons:   http://www.christianpost.com/news/mee...   Hilariously, the New York Times, no stranger to “implicit proselytizing” on behalf of any number of leftist causes, political and cultural, felt the need to issue a warning, lest its audience fall victim to clandestine [Read More...]

2 Nephi 17

    Today’s reading — 2 Nephi 17 (= Isaiah 7) — contains, in verse 14, one of the most famous of all messianic prophecies:   Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and shall bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.   It’s already quoted as applying to Jesus of Nazareth in Matthew 1:23, and it’s actually [Read More...]

A helpful resource for online LDS

    For those of you out there who — perhaps in response to appeals from Elders M. Russell Ballard and David A. Bednar and others — would like to join in the effort of sharing the Gospel online via Facebook, blogging, or even just emails to members of your families, here’s handy and easy-to-use [Read More...]

“Thousands ‘will most likely be massacred’ if Kobani falls to jihadists, UN warns”

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/1...   And it’s said that ISIS has been attempting to seize and seal off avenues of escape from Kobani into Turkey — which seems ominous.  If ISIS merely wanted to take possession of real estate, they would, I think, be more than happy to allow the residents of the city to leave.  And [Read More...]

Much recent nonsense has seriously compromised the Nobel Peace Prize.

    But I’m happy at the committee’s choice for this year:   http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-...   Imagine a girl being called out of her high school chemistry class to be told that she’s won a Nobel Prize.  That’s probably not a very common scenario . . .   Posted from Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii    

“A Response to Grant Palmer’s ‘Sexual Allegations Against Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Polygamy in Nauvoo’”

    This week’s regular Friday publication in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/a-re...   Posted from Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii