Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 16

I laugh because, otherwise, not much can be done about it

  I mentioned this case in my immediately prior post, but I regard it as such a manifest outrage that I’m going to mention it again — and I’m going to encourage you to write your senator and your congressman about it:  “BYU Ph.D. student’s international student visa revoked over apparent fishing license violation: Husband and […]

On the definition of “Woman”

  A horrific judicial decision has just emerged out of the United Kingdom:  “U.K. Supreme Court issues unanimous ruling on the definition of ‘woman’: The ruling is a significant development in the country’s ongoing debate over transgender issues.”  If this sort of thing goes much further, some people will begin to imagine that reality and […]

Nairobi: A memory, a new temple, and, yes . . . opposition

  Many, many years ago — probably in 1979, or maybe in 1980 — my wife and I took a trip during Christmas vacation from Cairo, Egypt, to Nairobi, Kenya.  It remains one of my favorite trips of all time.  It was astoundingly cheap — as the result of some sort of special deal for […]

Brazenly lying about a nineteenth-century Church leader

  An avid anonymous participant over at the Peterson Obsession Board who calls himself something like Everybody’s WC  has, for years, specialized in manufacturing fictional stories designed to illustrate my depraved buffoonery — stories that he passes off as real.  These tales often rest upon information supposedly shared with him by (probably fictional) confidential informants […]

Palm Sunday 2025 — and 1836

  A passage in the stake president’s remarks at our stake conference this morning got me to thinking along the following lines, closely related to but not identical with the line of thought that he was pursuing: I sometimes hear from former members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and from grace-alone […]

On the Eve of Holy Week

  The late Bill Hamblin and I — how it still surprises and grieves me, even now, to write that phrase, “the late Bill Hamblin”! — published the article below in the 19 April 2014 issue of the Deseret News.  It’s relevant again, today, as we’re on the eve of Palm Sunday: Historically, Easter has […]

The Timing of the Death of Jesus Christ

  This article went up earlier today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:  “Spiritual Implications of the Timing of the Death of Jesus Christ,” written by C. Thomas Black: Abstract: Centuries-long speculation continues regarding the circumstances surrounding the death of the Savior. Whether he died sooner than would have been expected, […]

“She Took the Veil and Covered Herself”

  This previously-published book chapter was posted today, Thursday, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:  The Temple: Plates, Patterns, & Patriarchs, “She Took the Veil and Covered Herself,” written by T. K. Plant.  For those who may still be confused by what is going on — as at least one unfortunate soul has been — […]

“Ye shall go to the Ohio”

  Our film team — Camrey Bagley Fox, Mark Goodman and his wife, James Jordan and his wife, Russell Richins, John Donovan Wilson, and my wife and I — drove today from Rochester, New York, to Kirtland, Ohio.  We traversed roughly the same land route that would have been covered by the very early Latter-day […]

Cold hands, warm hearts

  We spent all day today filming for our Becoming Brigham documentary series.  It was tough going.  At one point, we checked the temperature and found it to be a bracing 31°F (approximately -0.6°C), with a windchill factor of 9°F (roughly -12.8°C).   The day was blustery, too, and, especially in the morning, fairly serious […]