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June 4, 2016
Atheistic writing style?
An interesting essay might be written on the possession of an atheistic literary style. There is such a thing. The mark of it is that wherever anything is named or described, such words are chosen as suggest that the thing has not got a soul in it. Thus they will talk not of love [Read More...]
June 3, 2016
“Muhammad Ali — simply ‘The Greatest’ — Dead at 74:
Sad news: https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/muh... There was much to admire in Muhammad Ali. He was, in many ways, a larger than life figure. And his last two or three decades were very sad. He’s now been released, though, from the prison of a dysfunctional body — such an ironic and unexpected situation [Read More...]
BOM Alma 17
Every Primary child in the Church is familiar with the story of Ammon as he heroically defends the flocks of the Lamanite king against marauding brigands. That’s plainly the most famous aspect of today’s reading, Alma 17. Alma 17:18 tells us, regarding the sons of Mosiah, that Ammon was “the chief among them,” [Read More...]
“Reading 1 Peter Intertextually with Select Passages from the Old Testament”
A second new article has gone up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture: Reading 1 Peter Intertextually With Select Passages From the Old Testament We hope you’ll enjoy it! Have a great weekend.
“Afghan national tied to Taliban attack plot, smuggled into US”
There is absolutely no doubt, for a whole host of reasons, that we need to get our borders under control: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/... Intense airport security seems a bit silly if our long physical borders leak like a sieve. (Though repeated tests seem to show that even our airport security isn’t very effective.) [Read More...]
“Now That We Have the Words of Joseph Smith, How Shall We Begin to Understand Them? Illustrations of Selected Challenges within the 21 May 1843 Discourse on 2 Peter 1”
It’s Friday, and another new article has appeared in the pages of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture: Now That We Have the Words of Joseph Smith, How Shall We Begin to Understand Them? Illustrations of Selected Challenges within the 21 May 1843 Discourse on 2 Peter 1 As always, it’s readily accessible [Read More...]
On Mr. Trump’s approach to foreign policy
Two good articles from the superb magazine Commentary: John Podhoretz, “The Clinton Anti-Trump Speech” Jonathan S. Tobin, “Trump’s Reagan Defense Falls Flat” And, as a bonus, a piece in the Washington Post by E. J. Dionne Jr., entitled “Is the GOP losing its religion?”
“New Directions in Pooh Studies: Überlieferungs- and traditionsgeschichtliche Studien zum Pu-Buch”
Our man in Ireland, Robert Boylan, has called our attention to a pathbreaking work on the Pooh-Cycle: https://www.academia.edu/3176336/New_... Winnie the Pooh has exerted enormous influence not only on the West, but in the East. (Some of you, no doubt, devoted substantial time in graduate school to studying The Tao of Pooh and its [Read More...]
“Cosmic curveball: Is the universe expanding even faster?”
Hmmm. It seems that we may not yet have definitively settled every scientific question: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/b2f0c...
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