Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 865

“When will love be free of loss and lamentation?”

    Today’s Hamblin/Peterson column for the Deseret News looks at one man’s response to an experience that too many of us have faced — and that, in some manner or another, all of us will face:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

Reflections on attending the symphony tonight

    My wife and I just returned from a performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, with Thierry Fischer conducting the Utah Symphony Orchestra.   It’s a powerful and varied piece.   I’m grateful that Utah has a high quality symphony orchestra.  It’s another thing to appreciate in my adopted state.   Incidentally, it occurs to [Read More...]

“Why are so many Muslim refugees in Europe suddenly finding Jesus?”

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles...   On one level, I don’t think this is very surprising.   On another, I’m astonished.   As Europe becomes more and more post-Christian and as extremist Muslims are seeking to expel Christians from the Middle East or even to exterminate them, it would be ironic if converted Muslims were to herald a Christian [Read More...]

Aristotle’s tomb found in Greece?

      If this claim is true, it’s a pretty exciting discovery.  There is, simply, no bigger name in antiquity than that of Aristotle.  In certain ways, even people like Augustus Caesar don’t compare.   Aristotle’s 2,400-Year-Old Tomb Found at Stagira [Photos]    

“The Scalp of Your Head: Polysemy in Alma 44:14-18”

    Another weekly article from Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture.  Another interesting little feature of the Book of Mormon:   The Scalp of Your Head: Polysemy in Alma 44:14–18    

Three quotations from the late great Justice Antonin Scalia

    “Never compromise your principles, unless of course your principles are Adolf Hitler’s, in which case you would be well advised to compromise them as much as you can.” “Indeed, follow your star if you want to head north and it’s the North Star. But if you want to head north and it’s Mars, [Read More...]

“Syria, Christians, and Pluralism in the Middle East”

    This isn’t just a transient political issue.  Unless momentum shifts and current trends are reversed or at least stopped, it will represent an epochal transformation — of world-historical dimensions:   http://www.realclearreligion.org/arti...    

It might be futile in the end, but there would be great honor in it — and the nation needs him

      This is a miserable presidential season.  Faced with the choice of either Mr. Donald Trump (who apparently clinched the Republican nomination today) or the cynical return of Clinton Inc., some of us are confronting the most painful electoral dilemma of our lives.   And we’re not alone.  While certain Republican politicians — even some [Read More...]

“Anti-Mormons acting like cultists”

    An amusing but perceptive note from the invaluable Robert Boylan:   http://scripturalmormonism.blogspot.c...    

Thinking about the future

    The future starts today, not tomorrow.  Pope St. John Paul II