Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 846

“‘Like a Broken Vessel'”

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has issued a video — featuring, among others, Elder Jeffrey Holland — about depression:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article...   It’s all to the good, I think, that we’re discussing such things openly and frankly now.  Perhaps some who suffer from this terrible problem will be helped.   [Read More...]

“The challenge posed by Jesus”

    The latest installment of my Thursday column for the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England    

“I wandered lonely as a cloud”

    One of William Wordsworth’s most famous poems is “I wandered lonely as a cloud,” which was inspired by a field of daffodils on the shore of Ullswater, here in England’s legendary “Lake District”:   I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I [Read More...]

It’s a big day here in the United Kingdom.

    As we’ve driven through the countryside, we’ve seen huge banners draped across hay bales screaming “Vote Leave!” and equally large banners elsewhere reading “Vote Remain!”  Newspaper headlines blare advice to vote one way or the other.   The polls are very close, with a slight lead — 51% to 49% in the most [Read More...]

“To dump Trump, Republicans should withhold their cash”

    As a way to eventually win their party back, should Republican donors keep their money from the Trump campaign?   That, anyway, is what George Will advises:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...   And, as it happens, it’s what I’m already doing.   It’s unlikely, of course, that my vast financial resources would have made any [Read More...]

BOM Alma 34

    I cannot begin to do justice to today’s reading, Alma 34.  So I won’t try.   But I’ll mention a couple of quick points:   1.   Our Evangelical Protestant critics like to suggest that we believe that we’ll earn our way into heaven.  And, unfortunately, some of us have spoken sloppily, and [Read More...]

Even deeper back in time

    Coming over from Holy Island, Lindisfarne, to Cumbria yesterday, we chose a slower road in order to visit Hadrian’s Wall — another area of Britain that I’ve long wanted to see but that, in more trips to the United Kingdom than I can count, extending over the better part of five decades, I never have. [Read More...]

“What is the Nature and Use of Chariots in the Book of Mormon?”

    https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.or...   Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England    

“‘Jesus’s wife’ papyrus likely a fake, Harvard prof says”

    http://www.freep.com/story/life/2016/...   Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England    

“How a Gaza Christian became a blind Muslim’s eyes”

    http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/origi...   Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England