Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 871

“On the Motif of the Weeping God in Moses 7”

    I published this article back in 2002, in a Festschrift honoring Truman Madsen:   http://publications.mi.byu.edu/fullsc...   The book is, I expect, long out of print, but I like to bring the article up from time to time because . . .  well, because I like it.   Posted from Richmond, Virginia    

Jimi Hendrix meets ancient Korea

    I really, really like this:   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/j...   Posted from Richmond, Virginia    

“What lies beneath”

    It turns out that what we know through science may be only a tiny fragment of what we don’t know:   http://www.americanthinker.com/articl...   One reader of my blog — a rigidly dogmatic and very vocal atheist — thinks that I post such things as this (and this) as part of a campaign against [Read More...]

“Singing and Dancing to the Book of Mormon”

    “‘O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’ he chortled in his joy.”   The Book of Mormon — no, silly! not that one! — draws academic attention:   Hartwick College’s Shaw Releases Book on “Book of Mormon”   Will Hartwick College replace Brigham Young University as a center for scholarly Book of Mormon studies?   [Read More...]

A follow-up regarding Book of Mormon “coins”

    The other day, I mentioned the topic of Book of Mormon “coinage,” a perennial target of critics of Joseph Smith and Mormonism, as an illustration of a rather different point.   Before I leave the subject of coinage altogether, though, here are a couple of links to discussions of the issue that are [Read More...]

“Take this off! This is America!”

    Here’s an article about Mr. Gill Parker Payne, 37, a patriotic and public-spirited resident of Gastonia, North Carolina:   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...   I wonder who Mr. Payne’s preferred presidential candidate might be.   Posted from Richmond, Virginia    

She died a martyr

    Dang.  I’m grateful to Chris Shearer for calling this remarkable obituary to my attention, but it was a bit late:   http://www.richmond.com/obituaries/ar...   The funeral was within practically a stone’s throw of where I’m currently typing.  We could have attended!   Posted from Richmond, Virginia    

Good advice on reading

    Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. P.J. O’Rourke   Posted from Richmond, Virginia    

“Christopher Hitchens was shaky in his atheism, new book suggests”

    I have no idea whether there’s any truth in this or not:   http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/us/...   There have been debated claims that Fawn Brodie, the alleged biographer of the Prophet Joseph Smith, requested a priesthood blessing on her deathbed.   Decades ago, I read a memoir by the daughter of the famous atheist philosopher [Read More...]

Written for our day

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about 3 Nephi 7:2-7 which reads as follows:   And the people were divided one against another; and they did separate one from another into tribes, every man according to his family and his kindred and friends; and thus they did destroy the government of the land.  And every [Read More...]