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BOM Alma 49

    Today’s reading, Alma 49, continues the remarkable story of the treacherous and evil Amalickiah.   As is my practice, I’ll comment upon just one element of this chapter:   It’s often remarked of generals that they typically prepare for the “last war,” and that practices and techniques and events of the next one, accordingly, [Read More...]

If you are a woman who thinks about or writes on LDS topics, or if you know any who do . . .

    . . . please let them know about the Ruth M. Stephens Article Prize offered by the Interpreter Foundation.   The deadline is drawing nigh, but there might still be time to write something and submit it.  And, if you have something sitting around that you think might be suitable, please do send [Read More...]

Ugo Perego to speak in West Valley City this coming weekend

    I saw this note from my friend Ugo Perego:   Next Sunday, July 17, 2016 at 7pm, I will be giving a fireside at the LDS Church building located at 4586 West Woodbury Circle in West Valley (Utah).  I will be speaking on a few topics related to DNA and family history/Church History/Book [Read More...]

Defending the Book of Mormon Witnesses against a recent attack

    A two-part response to a recent assault on the credibility of the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon:   http://blog.fairmormon.org/2016/06/19...   http://blog.fairmormon.org/2016/06/25...   I myself had a few (derivative) things to say about the Book of Mormon Witnesses in this two-CD set, which was first published back in 2003:     Of course, as [Read More...]

“Orrin Hatch Pays Tribute to Elie Wiesel”

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/orrin-h...   Or you can watch it here:   http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/in...   And I heartily recommend this piece by Allen Hansen, an Israeli Latter-day Saint:   “Soul on Fire: Appreciating Elie Wiesel”   Sober thoughts for a Sabbath.    

A famous prayer

    Lord . . . We thank you for your church, founded upon your Word, that challenges us to do more than sing and pray, but go out and work as though the very answer to our prayers depended on us and not upon you. Help us to realize that humanity was created to [Read More...]

“Mitt Romney, A Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes to You”

    Some appear to think that it’s only Mormons — or perhaps even only yours truly — who wish that Governor Romney would declare for the presidency.   I don’t think that Michael Levin is a Latter-day Saint.   I’m reasonably confident that Michael Levin isn’t me.   And yet . . .   [Read More...]

BOM Alma 48

    There’s a remarkably revealing passage in Alma 48 in which the prophet and editor of the Book of Mormon — the man for whom it’s named — comments upon his great forerunner as military commander of the Nephites:    11 And Moroni was a strong and a mighty man; he was a man of a perfect understanding; yea, a man [Read More...]

“To Them of the Last Wagon”

    I was reminded of this famous speech a couple of days ago, at the opening of the conference that I attended on Thursday and Friday.  The meeting was sponsored by BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School, and one of those who welcomed the conference audience briefly spoke of the late President J. Reuben Clark, [Read More...]

“The Most Exacting Precision”

    If the universe had not been made with the most exacting precision we could never have come into existence. It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.  John O’Keefe