Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 79

A late thought on a memorable day

    Today has, of course, been the anniversary of the terrorist attacks against New York City and Washington DC and the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 that brought that airliner down in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all aboard. There’s very little that I can say about the events of those days, […]

An outline of Egyptian history

    From the Christopher Hitchens Memorial “How Religion Poisons Everything” File™:  “Church Leaders Express Sympathy, Offer Support after Earthquake in Morocco.”     I’ll be accompanying a tour to Egypt next month.  So here’s a chronology of basic Egyptian history that I think I’ll give out to participants in the group. I make absolutely […]

A very basic apologetic reading list

    Kindly guided by one of the members of our host family, who is a member at the Center, we spent several hours on Saturday at Space Center Houston, including a tram and walking tour at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, which is located directly next door. Neil Armstrong’s famous statement upon landing on the surface […]

“The Destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor in Historical Context”

    For any who are in the vicinity of Houston, Texas, or who may soon be in the vicinity of Houston, Texas:  I’ll be giving a fireside tomorrow night (Saturday, 9 September 2023) at the Friendswood stake center, beginning at 6:00 PM.  The title of the talk is “Six Days in August: The Twelve’s […]

You can, if you choose, count this as yet another comment on the controversy about the proposed Cody Wyoming Temple.

    With my late friend Bill Hamblin (whom I miss literally every day), I published the article immediately below back on 12 October 2004.  I wrote this one; the Hsi Lai Temple sits just over the hill from the home in which my parents spent their final three decades (and where my nephew and […]

Sigh. Cody, Wyoming. Again.

    The adventure begins:  Our movie crew heads out on Friday.  They will start filming for Six Days in August at Upper Canada Village, in Ontario,  on Monday, 11 September.  After that, if plans hold, activity moves to Genesee Country Village in upstate New York on Monday, 25 September 25.  Following that, there will […]

“Be Ye Reconciled to God”

    The second part of my “Follow Him” podcast interview with Hank Smith and John Bytheway (on 1 Corinthians 14-16, “God is Not the Author of Confusion, But of Peace”) is now up online:  1 Corinthians 14-16 Part 2 • Dr. Daniel C. Peterson • Sept 4 – Sept 10.  The first part of […]

They just keep coming, brainlessly but without pause

    This article of mine — inspired by the heartbreaking recent events in the former Maui town of Lahaina — appeared yesterday in Meridian Magazine:  “Losing an Earthly Paradise.”     For us, flying out of Provo (and back into Provo) is about as good as it gets, flying-wise.  Just a few minutes on […]

The Book of Mormon plates and playing Whac-a-Mole with critics

    An interview that I recently did with Hank Smith and John Bytheway on 1 Corinthians 14-16 has begun to go up, in two parts, on their “Follow Him” podcast, under the title “God is Not the Author of Confusion, but of Peace”: 1 Corinthians 14-16 Part 1 • Dr. Daniel C. Peterson • […]

A veritable implicit philosophy of history

    For reasons known only to me, although a couple of other folks might be able, if they put their minds to it even slightly, to divine my intent — is that mysterious enough for you? really, it’s no big deal — I have been gathering notes over the past few days on the […]