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“Democrats’ push to criminalize dissent”

    I regard this as really quite appalling:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...    

1 Nephi 14

    It’s conceivable, although admittedly unlikely, that a few members of the human race have not been following this blog with sufficiently slavish attention to realize that I’ve recently begun a series of brief daily comments on scripture, chapter by chapter.   I commenced on 1 September with the Title Page of the Book of [Read More...]

C. S. Lewis on signs of God, everywhere

    “We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God.  The world is crowded with Him.  He walks everywhere incognito.  And the incognito is not always hard to penetrate.  The real labour is to remember, to attend.  In fact, to come awake.  Still more, to remain awake.”   C. S. Lewis, [Read More...]

“Covering up with the hijab may aid women’s body image”

    This article, brought to my attention by my friend Mike Parker, is striking for several reasons:   http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda...   Please note, before accusing me of being a misogynistic Mormon patriarchal oppressor, that I’m not demanding that women be forced to wear the hijab nor even any Mormon equivalent thereof.  In any case, the British [Read More...]

“11 movies to watch out for this fall”

    A handy list of upcoming family-oriented films, by one of the bright lights at the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

“How beautiful upon the mountains”

    In its just-posted eighty-ninth (89th) scripture roundtable, The Interpreter Foundation focuses — by means of discussants Cassandra Hedelius, Daniel Peterson, and Stephen Smoot — on Isaiah 50-53.  These are the chapters to be covered for Lesson 39 in the 2014 Gospel Doctrine lesson manual in the adult Sunday School curriculum of The Church [Read More...]

“I missed a Sunday”

    Serving a mission in Samoa can sometimes oblige you to miss the Sabbath.   Altogether.   http://samoamission.blogspot.com/2014...    

“Life beyond Earth”

    I’ve just read a lavishly illustrated and very interesting article in the July 2014 issue of National Geographic:   http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ast...   The search for extraterrestrial life is now focused less on signals from ET than on exobiology, places where relatively primitive extremophiles might have eked out a survival niche.   And there’s talk [Read More...]

Keeping Portland weird

    Those who’re committed to the cause of keeping Portland weird need have no real anxiety on that score:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnVjk...   Thanks to Carol Rawson for bringing this to my attention.    

C. S. Lewis on life’s obstacles, setbacks, and difficulties

    “The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life.  The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life — the life God is sending one day by day: what one calls one’s ‘real [Read More...]