Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1266

Things that really matter

    I never knew Matthew Parker, but his father, Mike, is a friend — and a colleague both in FairMormon and The Interpreter Foundation.  He regularly participates, very insightfully, in the Foundation’s “scripture roundtables,” and we’re often in on those conversations together.   I sincerely hope that I’m not being too public for them [Read More...]

Arresting inspiration

    Two new entries, including a wonderful story of inspiration and blessing, from our friends in Samoa:   http://samoamission.blogspot.com    

“Muslim Twisted Thinking”?

    I received the following in an email on Sunday night.  The original letter purports to come from Dr. Arieh Eldad, of Hadassah Hospital in Israel — a place where we once took one of our sons for a medical emergency (and received first-rate care): I was instrumental in establishing the “Israeli National Skin [Read More...]

Arguing for the Resurrection at Education Week

    Just a reminder that I’ll be speaking at BYU Education Week again this year (19-22 August):   Daniel C. Peterson Truly He Is Risen: A Historical Case for the Resurrection of Christ 3220–3224 Wilkinson Student Center (WSC), 3:10–4:05 p.m. T  The Witness of the Gospels W  The Collective Witness of the Original Twelve [Read More...]

“Love People, Not Pleasure”

    A wonderful article by one of the most interesting and useful social scientists in America:   http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/opi...    

“An ancient pagan prophecy of Christ?”

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

The Chinese government destroys Christian crosses

    Christians are having a very difficult time in many parts of the world right now.   There should be more who are upset about this than there seem to be:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/76...    

Democrats and impeachment

    All my news and facts come from Sean Hannity and Fox News, of course, so I was fascinated when Sean conducted this “CNN” poll:   It seems that 13% of those surveyed who are members of the Fox News affiliate called the Democratic Party favor the impeachment of Barack Obama:   http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/...   [Read More...]

“Constantine’s influence can scarcely be measured”

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

“Epic fail, Dan. Epic fail.”

    “Everybody Wang Chung” has just now responded, after a fashion, to my post the other day about “Anonymous Slander on the Web.”  (Somebody on his own board had directly asked him for his reaction to what I had written about him, and I suppose he realized that he couldn’t simply ignore the request and [Read More...]