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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.    

“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...]