Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 130

“Have you bought your copy of ‘Undaunted’ yet?” he demanded angrily.

    ***   I haven’t yet seen anybody watching it here on the boat, but I’m reliably informed that the new Interpreter Foundation docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon became generally available today, presumably at Deseret Book outlets and perhaps even elsewhere:   Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon   *** […]

NDEs and “Fundamaterialists”

    ***   Besides watching a couple of films on the way over from New York City — I watched the late Joshua Wong’s The Calm Beyond and, for one of my granddaughters, Disney/Pixar’s Brave — I read Jens Amberts, Why an Afterlife Obviously Exists: A Thought Experiment and Realer Than Real Near-Death Experiences […]

Future archaeologists might someday have found us still waiting in the ruins of Rome’s airport

    ***   I can always find something to complain about.   I sat for two or three hours on Sunday in the Delta Lounge of JFK Airport in New York City.  And their internet didn’t work!  I’m credibly assured that I lived for much of my life without instant access to the internet, […]

Hamilton and the Liahona

    ***   Earlier this evening, the Interpreter Foundation posted the fifth in its series of short-feature “reels” deriving from the overall Witnesses film project.  That project is, very literally, a gift that goes on giving:   “Undaunted Witnesses Episode 5: Blessings of Kirtland“   Incidentally, in the end there will be considerably more […]

“Under the Banner of Heaven,” Episode 5: “One Mighty and Strong”

    ***   I recently read online that I’m burning with incandescent rage about the Hulu/FX miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven.  Among other things, I learned that I’m beside myself with furious envy at its success.  With that in mind — and scarcely able to see the keys on my computer for sheer […]

Scientific thinking and religion? Compatible?

    ***   My blog enjoys the attention and ministrations of a resident devotee of scientistic atheism.  (I’m not sure exactly what to call him in that regard.  He’s definitely not a scientist, as he himself will freely admit — well, not freely, actually; the sequences of neurochemical brain processes that result in that […]

Entitled Cogitations

    ***   For some reason, I got to thinking along the following lines while I was on the flight this afternoon from Salt Lake City to JFK:   Much is said about the allegedly patriarchal and misogynistic culture imposed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints upon its members and upon […]

“Be they however so convincing”

    ***   I’ve just finished recording a podcast with Richard T. Steadman (“Richie T”) of The Cultural Hall.  I’m not sure when it will go public.  Maybe next Tuesday or so.  (I assume that it will go public!)   ***   Here are some new items for you on the website of the […]

Just assert it forcefully enough, and some will think that you actually know what you’re talking about

    ***   Yesterday afternoon, I participated in recording a “Follow Him” podcast on 1 Samuel 8-18 with Hank Smith and John Bytheway.  I had a great time (which may perhaps explain the fact that I went on for far too long); they’re extremely interesting chapters, recounting a great but tragic story.  The podcast […]

Where I stand on “Great Replacement” theory: A brief note

    ***   We’re gradually approaching the dog days of summer.  With that in mind, it’s probably as good an occasion as any to inflame some of my more obsessive critics again, and to give them an opportunity to slander me and to distort what I say.  So I think that I’ll take up […]