Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1256

“This is a Woman’s Church”

    The Salt Lake Tribune’s Peggy Fletcher Stack offers her account of the talk given by Sharon Eubank, director of LDS Charities, at the FairMormon conference on Friday:   http://m.sltrib.com/sltrib/mobile3/58...   The full talk — just under an hour long — is available here.    

Interpreter’s second birthday party

    We celebrated the second birthday of The Interpreter Foundation today.  (Our birthday was actually on 3 August.)   For a “virtual” online organization that functions largely via computer connections and the internet, this was a rare opportunity for editors, authors, and other volunteers to meet face to face — and about seventy-five people [Read More...]

“LDS attorney lists what Mormons need to know about religious freedom today”

    An article in the Deseret News about one of the presentations at the just-completed sixteenth annual FairMormon conference:   http://m.deseretnews.com/article/8656...    

Jesus just a recycled myth?

    I’ve just now encountered this historically illiterate anti-Christian claim yet again, so, once again, I’m going to post a link to a column that I wrote — much more could have been written! — exposing it for the flat nonsense that it is:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/76...    

Another of my linguistic peeves

    The word tenet is not a synonym for the word tenant, and tenet isn’t spelled tenant.      

Is YOUR life boring and uneventful?

    Maybe you need this:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OIJR...   Brought to my notice by Cecilia Morejon    

“From Jewish peasant girl to ‘Mother of God’”

    Today’s biweekly Hamblin-Peterson column has been published in the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

I’m just about on!

    I’m listening, right now, to the very impressive Hannah Smith, who is addressing the FairMormon audience on the topic of “Religious Liberty: What Latter-day Saints Need to Know to Preserve Our First Freedom.”   But I’m also desperately trying to cram more insults and personal attacks — more defamation, more sheer mean-spirited nastiness [Read More...]

“Big Trouble in River City: ‘American Crucifixion’ and the Defaming of Joseph Smith”

    It being Friday, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has published a new article:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/big-...   Posted from FairMormon 2014, where Ben McGuire, Trevor Holyoak, and Neylan McBaine have just received awards from the Foundation      

“Why aren’t more Americans atheists?”

    An interesting article, brought to my attention by Stephen Smoot:   http://www.politico.com/magazine/stor...   Posted from the floor of the 2014 FairMormon conference, where Sharon Eubank, director of LDS Charities for the Church, is currently speaking