Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1259

New “SquareTwo”!

    I received this item in my email from Valerie Hudson, who now holds the George H. W. Bush Chair at Texas A&M University, and I thought that some of you would find it interesting:   Welcome, dear readers, to the Summer 2014 issue of SquareTwo! The full table of contents can be found [Read More...]

Some enjoyable time could be spent on this site

    Here’s an interesting and still relatively new Mormon-related website:   http://lds.net    

Aerial drone video of the new Ogden Utah Temple

    If you have about ninety seconds and you love temples (as I do), I think you’ll like this:   http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/ogden...    

“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...