Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1267

Thank You

    Quite a number of people out there — many that I know, but also many that I don’t — wrote to me here, privately, on Facebook, and elsewhere to express their condolences on the death of my granddaughter, my first grandchild, slightly more than month ago.   For various reasons, I couldn’t respond [Read More...]

Is God finished speaking to humankind? A thought from a source most of you probably wouldn’t expect

    “‘If the whole ocean were ink for writing the words of my Lord, it would run dry before those words were exhausted’—even if We were to add another ocean to it.”  (Qur’an 18:109)    

A female apostle in the New Testament?

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

The future is bright (unless, perhaps, you imagine that reading and writing are important)

    Take a look at this:   http://guardianlv.com/2014/03/sat-to-...   Thanks to Nicol Sorenson-Legakis for bringing it to my notice.    

“Bite the Wax Tadpole: A Manifesto for Internet Conversation and Debate”

    As a grizzled veteran of online interactions (and, at least as often, of online failures to actually interact), I really got a kick out of these thoughts from Jonathan Max Wilson, another experienced (though as yet ungrizzled) veteran:   http://www.sixteensmallstones.org/bit...    

“Reign of Judges: The Title of Liberty”

        David Wills brought this interesting project to my attention (all the way from Adelaide, Australia):   http://www.reignofjudgesmovie.com   I hadn’t heard of it.     As you can see on this page (and my collection of images isn’t exhaustive), Moroni and his “Title of Liberty” have been a popular subject for [Read More...]

“Hearing Cosmic Harmony Again” Online

    I was pleased and surprised to learn (from a reader of this blog called “dangerdad”) that a videotape of my 2013 Summerhays Lecture for the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at BYU is up online.  I hadn’t been aware of that, or, if I had been aware, had forgotten it:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6UuPr... [Read More...]

“Martin Harris: ‘Native honesty’ and life-long testimony”

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

“America: Imagine the World Without Her”

    My wife and I just returned from seeing Dinesh D’Souza’s America: Imagine a World Without Her:   http://www.americathemovie.com   My brother-in-law saw it a few days ago and liked it, although he thought the last quarter or third of it too overtly political.   I thoroughly enjoyed it, and recommend it to anybody [Read More...]

Weird Al’s “Tin Foil”

    My wife shared this with me last night:   http://www.pedestrian.tv/pop-culture/...   I regularly receive emails and other such communications from people like this.