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Will I see you in Oslo on Sunday evening?

    I’ll be speaking at 7 PM on Sunday evening, 13 August 2016, at the Oslo Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  For those who’re in town and are interested in attending, the building is located at Hekkveien 9, 0571 Oslo.   Posted from London, England    

Have you seen the Church’s Young Single Adults building in Manchester, England?

    http://www.mormonnewsroom.org.uk/arti...   I was interested to see this kind of curricular work going on here.  The religious and religious-educational situation in the United Kingdom is very different from that to which people in the United States, with its famous wall of “strict separation” between church and state, are accustomed.   Posted from London, [Read More...]

“The Tyranny of Simple Explanations”

    Stephen Smoot calls my attention to this extremely interesting little essay about science and its history:   http://www.theatlantic.com/science/ar...   It touches on some ideas that I mentioned a week ago at the 2016 FairMormon conference.    

“Olympians in Hijab and Bikini”

    Thanks to Bianca Lisonbee for calling my attention to this interesting piece about a (quite harmless) illustration of the “clash of civilizations” at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.    

An interesting interview on Utah, Mormons, Clinton, and Trump

    An interesting MSNBC discussion with Jim Bennett, son of the late Senator Bob Bennett (R-UT):   http://www.msnbc.com/kate-snow/watch/...    

“Were We Foreordained to the Priesthood, or Was the Standard of Worthiness Foreordained? Alma 13 Reconsidered”

    It’s Friday again, so, in the monotonous and tiresome way that has become all too familiar to some, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has published yet another new article:   Were We Foreordained to the Priesthood, or Was the Standard of Worthiness Foreordained? Alma 13 Reconsidered   Enjoy!    

The Freiberg Germany Temple

    This small and simple temple, soon to have its open house and dedication after considerable renovation, is historically quite significant:  In a harbinger of freedoms to come, it was built and dedicated under Communist rule, back when Germany was divided.  Much of the work behind this was done by Elder Thomas S. Monson, then [Read More...]

Please meet a very great man

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article...    

“Too good to check: Sean Hannity’s tale of a Trump rescue”

    Another Trumpist myth fails to withstand scrutiny:   https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/f...   By the way, I stopped watching Sean Hannity’s show, or listening to him, at least a year ago.  Long before Trumpulism had reached epidemic proportions.  I had never been a faithful member of Hannity’s audience, but, back when Alan Colmes shared the show, [Read More...]

BOM Alma 60

    In Alma 60, we see another striking illustration of what — in connection with the account of the proposed prisoner exchange in Alma 54 — I’ve earlier identified as Moroni’s “spiritedness,” a quality that makes him a great warrior but perhaps a less effective diplomat.   Remember how Moroni wanted that prisoner exchange [Read More...]