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“What do recent attacks mean for future of Egypt’s Christians?”

    http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/origi...    

4-5 August. Be there!

    This year’s FairMormon conference has managed to sneak up on us.  But it’s coming soon:   http://www.fairmormon.org/perspective...   And you don’t want to miss it.    

Why should we love our enemies?

    “It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.”  Marilynne Robinson, Gilead    

John Dehlin vs. Scott Gordon

    I’ve had a number of face to face encounters with John Dehlin.  All of them, I believe, have been pleasant and civil enough.  Obviously, he and I disagree very fundamentally on a number of fundamentally important things, and he’s made a number of online statements about me, personally, that I regard as either [Read More...]

“Moral Narcissism and the Least-Great Generation”

    “Moral Narcissism and the Least-Great Generation”   I wish I could remember who brought this piece by Roger Simon to my attention, but I can’t.  And, for that, I apologize.   Anyhow, it seems apropos in connection with one of my earlier posts today.   By the way, although I’m of a later [Read More...]

BOM Alma 52

    In connection with yesterday’s reading and today’s, here’s a Deseret News column (entitled “May your new year begin better than Amalickiah’s”) that I wrote back at the very end of 2011.   It treats some of what I posted last night, but it also addresses, very briefly, the significance of the date of [Read More...]

“Me, Me, Me: The Rise Of Narcissism In The Age Of The Selfie”

    An interesting and very brief report on the work of psychologist Jean Twenge:   http://www.npr.org/2016/07/12/4850874...   It confirms suspicions that I’ve long had, being myself a crotchety old geezer of the type who, no doubt, hates, envies, and fears both young people and independent thinking.  And it’s a bit worrisome.   Could it, [Read More...]

“More Mormons to meet? LDS Church to release second ‘Meet the Mormons’ film”

    This should be interesting:   http://m.deseretnews.com/article/8656...   I liked the first one.    

Some Remarks in Sweden on Mormonism and Islam

    I was just a bit surprised, but not displeased, to discover just now that the remarks that I delivered on Islam and Mormonism in a fireside at the Västra Frölunda Ward (near Goteborg, Sweden, on 19 June 2016) are available online.   The sound quality isn’t quite ideal, but it’s not terrible.  Each recording [Read More...]

The Mormon Historic Sites Foundation

    You may already be familiar with them, but, if not, I would like to introduce to you an organization that I admire tremendously: the Mormon Historic Sites Foundation.   All my life, I’ve been exceptionally and acutely aware of the transience of people and things, and yet, at the same time, very conscious of [Read More...]