Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1270

“Dissent and Mormon Mission”

      A Dominican Catholic priest looks at excommunication for apostasy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  – something that’s been in the news of late:   http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firs...   Thanks to Nathaniel Hancock for bringing this item to my notice.    

“A Word on a ‘Liberal’ vs. a ‘Conservative’ Understanding of Scripture”

    An interesting (and timely) essay from David Larsen:   http://www.heavenlyascents.com/2014/0...    

“Come, Come Ye Saints”

    After being forced from the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, that they had built, the first companies of Mormon emigrants entered the Valley of the Great Salt Lake on 24 July 1847.   “Come, Come Ye Saints” is sometimes called the “anthem” of the nineteenth-century Mormon pioneers.  The lyrics for it were written on [Read More...]

Out of Samoa

      http://samoamission.blogspot.com    

For you young mothers out there

  Here’s a schematic that makes your choices clear and unconfusing:     I’d like to thank the person who brought this to my attention, but, unfortunately, I can’t remember who that was.   Anyway, I think it’s helpful.  Don’t make things too complicated!    

The age-old question

      Some amusing variants on the old chicken-and-the-road question — mostly involving various Protestant theologians, but also a pope, a fiercely investigative southern Republican Congressman (a former federal prosecutor), and one or two others — from an Evangelical New Testament scholar:   http://danielbwallace.com/2014/07/05/...   I still chuckle over this Hemingwayesque version that I [Read More...]

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.