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An Irresistible Force Encounters an Immoveable Object

    Although we really didn’t have time last night – too many urgent things to do – we attended a performance of Puccini’s La bohème.  I’m sad to report that Mimi died, once again.  Every time we see La bohème, I root for her, hoping that she’ll make it.  But she never does. *** […]

Life is Information

    The funeral services for a dear friend, Bianca Palmieri Lisonbee, were held this morning.  Last night, too, along with a mutual friend who happened to be visiting from Orlando for meetings connected with BYU’s International Center for Law and Religion Studies (and whom we drove to the airport thereafter), my wife and I […]

Happy Birthday!

    Today is my brother’s birthday.  He would have been eighty-one this year, which is very difficult for me to imagine.  I’m sorry to say that, more than a few times while he was alive, I completely forgot it until three or four days had passed.  No longer, though.  Now that it’s too late, […]

“Resident Aliens”

    A new article went up at noon today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation.  It is the Introduction to Volume 58 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: ““Signals of Transcendence,”” written by . . .   well, by one Daniel C. Peterson Abstract: Hints of a different and […]

A Brief Visit To The Factory Where The Myths Are Manufactured

    The teaching of the Book of Mormon on resurrection is clear and specific.  Here, for example, is Alma 11:43-44: The spirit and the body shall be reunited again in its perfect form; both limb and joint shall be restored to its proper frame, even as we now are at this time; and we […]

A brief visit to the factory where the myths are manufactured

    The teaching of the Book of Mormon on resurrection is clear and specific.  Here, for example, is Alma 11:43-44: The spirit and the body shall be reunited again in its perfect form; both limb and joint shall be restored to its proper frame, even as we now are at this time; and we […]

A few thoughts about faith, reason, and science

    “I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.”  (1 Corinthians 14:15) I would like to share a random potpourri of passages that struck me (and that I marked) during my reading of Michael Guillen,  Believing is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed […]

Is Evangelical Anti-Mormonism Karmic Payback for Our Missionary Program?

    With friends, we attended the open house of the newly renovated St. George Utah Temple this morning.  I loved it.  I loved the fact that the renovation restored the temple to an interior look that its nineteenth-century pioneer builders would have recognized.  Renovations and extensions to early temples that were done a generation […]

In Hurricane

    Over on the Peterson Obsession Board, there is a poster who goes by the pseudonym Everybody’s WC, or something of that sort.  One of his odd specialities over the years has been inventing fictions about me that, unless and until he’s called on them, he tries to pass off as true.  Among his […]

One Glorious Sunday in the Fall

    Once again, I invite you to share in the comments favorite moments, talks, or stories from this just-concluded semi-annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — whether from today’s sessions or from yesterday’s. I will share one or two of my own personal favorites.  I want to make […]