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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...]

“Why Democracy Works”

    A short but thought-provoking little video featuring Clayton Christensen, whom I first met back in the seventeenth century when we were both freshmen and next door neighbors in a dorm at BYU:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSmF2...    

1 Nephi 16

    Today’s reading is 1 Nephi 16.   It’s in this chapter that Ishmael — who, with his family, had joined Lehi’s group on their journey away from Jerusalem — dies.  And he’s buried in a place called Nahom.   For number of reasons, I believe the mention of Nahom to be one of the [Read More...]

Glimpses of the Alhambra

    I grew up in San Gabriel, California, but we did much of our shopping in the adjacent city of Alhambra.  San Gabriel High School, from which I graduated, was actually a part of the Alhambra School District.  Nearby was Almansor Street, which ran by Almansor Park.     It took me quite a [Read More...]

Freedom of speech under threat in Malaysia

    I’ve been watching recent developments in Malaysia with considerable concern — notably its ban, upheld by its highest court at the end of June, on the use of the term Allah by non-Muslims to refer to the Supreme Being (rather analogous to a hypothetical legal prohibition of Jews and Muslims from using the word [Read More...]

“Provo ranked 4th most educated city in website’s analysis”

      Here’s a nice little article in today’s Deseret News that, if facts actually meant anything to certain critics of Mormonism, might perhaps possibly maybe potentially suggest a little flaw in a small portion of their general narrative about brain-dead Morgbot sheeple and the laughable state of Utard:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   The reader [Read More...]