Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1233

“Obama’s not a closer”

    An interesting little piece in one of the finest contemporary American magazines, Commentary:   http://www.commentarymagazine.com/201...    

Photos from Today’s Middle East

    http://www.nationalreview.com/slidesh...   Again, trying to put real faces on the people, and to give a sense of the reality of the place.   The Middle East isn’t some alien planet.  Those who who live there aren’t of a different species.   No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a [Read More...]

A remarkably powerful political ad aimed at Catholics

    I hope that Latter-day Saints will take heed:   https://www.youtube.com/embed/D9vQt6I...   Thanks to Steve Case for bringing this to my notice.    

Designed for something beyond the here and now

    “The human soul was made to enjoy some object that is never fully given — nay, cannot even be imagined as given — in our present mode of subjective and spatio-temporal experience.”   C. S. Lewis, “Preface,” The Pilgrim’s Regress  

Christians: “Trapped in Iraq”

    I don’t want them to be forgotten:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...    

JustServe

    Here’s an absolutely wonderful new undertaking by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that I’m thrilled by, and that I learned about just yesterday while meeting with some folks up at Church headquarters.  (Maybe I’m the last person to hear about it?)   http://www.justserve.org   http://www.justserve.org/aboutus/   As you’ll soon recognize [Read More...]

“Morning Light”

    An inspirational minute or so with which to start the day:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hip6I...    

“Columbus among the Nephites”

    I’m shocked!   A reader who calls himself “The Scientist,” who seldom misses an opportunity to comment on my columns and who invariably finds them without value, says that today’s column represents “an extremely weak argument.”   You can laugh at that “extremely weak argument” for yourself, here.    

On Devils

    “[Dante's] devils, as Ruskin rightly remarked, in their rage, spite, and obscenity, are far more like what the reality must be than anything in Milton.  Milton’s devils, by their grandeur and high poetry, have done great harm, and his angels owe too much to Homer and Raphael.  But the really pernicious image is [Read More...]

“And, having writ, moves on”

    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. (From The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, trans. Edward Fitzgerald)   I’ve always been acutely aware of the passage of time, painfully [Read More...]