Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1265

Blood Needed

    If you’re along the Wasatch Front, and especially if you’re in the Salt Lake Valley:   There seems, for some reason, to be an exceptionally great need right now in the Salt Lake City area for blood.   ARUP Blood Services (which is the sole provider of blood to patients at the Huntsman Cancer [Read More...]

“Understanding Nephi with the Help of Noah Webster”

      It’s Friday!   So, naturally, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has published a new article:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/unde...   And, while we’re at it, Kristine Wardle Frederickson has joined The Interpreter Foundation as a contributing editor:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/auth...   And Matthew Bowen has joined our Board of Editors:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/auth...    

Free Shaneen Allen! (She crossed the Delaware, not the Rubicon.)

      Now, here’s an outrage:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...   You can drop a note to Governor Chris Christie here.    

It’s just a few of us loons who see a problem.

    As has been previously observed by an incisive pair of critics, I obtain virtually all of my news and political “facts” from Sean Hannity and Fox News.   Above is the cover for Sean Hannity’s latest lead story in Fox-controlled Time Magazine.  Typical fringe Tea-Party wack-job paranoia and anti-Obama racism from a typical tabloid [Read More...]

Let that be a lesson to ye, Dan-o!

    Read your emails.   I know.  If, like me, you get lots and lots of them, it can be deucedly hard to keep up.   But I lost three or four blog posts last night.  They simply disappeared.  Vanished.  And, since I compose them on the site itself, rather than transferring them from [Read More...]

“Trek by Mormon pioneers helped create identity”

      A Pioneer Day column from three years ago:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/70...    

“Nine things you need to know about Hamas — straight from its charter”

    I’m not, candidly, a big fan of Hamas:   http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/22/9-t...    

Anonymous slander on the Web

    The Web is a wonderful thing.  It puts information and research at one’s fingertips in a way that would have been inconceivable only a couple of decades ago.  In fact — given my hoary old age — I am a witness:  Most of us never imagined it.  Couldn’t have.   But the Web [Read More...]

Happy Pioneer Day!

      My Deseret News column for today:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

“Finding God through the history, philosophy of science”

      http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...