Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1251

Okay lecture, good food, and a supremely important family event

    A rather good day.   This afternoon, I delivered my first of four BYU Education Week lectures on historical arguments for the resurrection of Christ.  Today’s lecture, “The Witness of the Gospels,” went okay.  I wasn’t overly pleased with it; this particular lecture is, by a considerable distance, the most complex, and, as [Read More...]

“Share Goodness”

    Elder David A. Bednar, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, has just delivered what, to my mind, was a remarkable summons to members of the Church to use social media in an effort to share the restored Gospel worldwide.   He also included some practical suggestions and announced certain resources that are, [Read More...]

“Inside the Brilliant Mind of Hugh Nibley”

    I don’t always agree with him, but he was and still is invariably stimulating, and he was unquestionably a genius.  And, for what it’s worth, a pivotal influence on my life:   http://www.ldsliving.com/story/76468-...    

“Wilford Woodruff’s Vision of the Founding Fathers”

    Cassandra Showell Hedelius and Tanya Spackman have brought this instructive and relatively brief article to my attention:   http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2013/10...   For those who might be interested in pursuing this topic further, John Gee tells me that there are a couple of articles in BYU Studies, by Professor Richard Bennett, that deal with the subject, [Read More...]

Man sees his family for the first time in 27 years

    The wonders of modern medicine!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzV2t...    

A third forthcoming book from The Interpreter Foundation

    About which I will make no comments that will offend or bore anybody:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/book...    

Against “rejoicing in iniquity”

    There are a couple of people on the web who maintain files, privately (for occasional public use) and publicly, on my various acts of cruelty, greed, misogyny, racism, irrational silliness, insensitivity, mean-spiritedness, bigotry, slander, libel, threatened violence, dishonesty, fanaticism, hypocrisy, and so forth.   They relish their self-assigned task, and plainly delight in [Read More...]

“God reveals his secrets to his prophets”

    Even amidst the death throes of the thoroughly unproductive and essentially comatose Interpreter Foundation, Bryce Haymond continues to amaze.   Although I’m only now posting a link to this, the eighty-fifth (85th) scripture roundtable posted by the Foundation, Bryce actually put it up last night — within an hour or two of its recording: [Read More...]

Yet another forthcoming book from The Interpreter Foundation

    Learn more about it here:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/book...   The spirit of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies and of the original Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship lives on.  And productively so! Just think what we could do with a bit more funding.

“I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness”

    Bruce Webster, Martin Tanner, and Andrew Smith discuss the Old Testament book of Hosea in this, the eighty-fourth (84th) scripture roundtable posted by The Interpreter Foundation:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scri...   The discussion is designed to help teachers and class members prepare for Lesson 34 in the 2014 Old Testament Gospel Doctrine manual of The [Read More...]