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Conference videos now available for free viewing!

    Videos of the presentations given at the Interpreter Foundation’s 2016 conference on science and Mormonism — which was held on 12 March — are now available online for free viewing: Conference Videos We hope you’ll enjoy them. Posted from Richmond, Virginia    

Coming up this Thursday evening

    Dylan Zwick kindly calls the following talk to my attention:   Subject: “An intimate God: the new American search for near-magical supernatural presence” Speaker: Prof. Tanya Luhrman When: Thursday, May 19th at 7:30 PM Where: Gore School of Business Atrium and Auditorium, Westminster College The talk is free and open to the public. More [Read More...]

Edmund Wilson on reading

    “No two persons ever read the same book.”  (Edmund Wilson)   Posted from Richmond, Virginia    

Looking up from al-Maghtas

      A couple of weeks ago, we stood (once more) at al-Maghtas, the traditional site of John’s baptism of Jesus.   I like the site.  I think it’s probably the right place or, at least, not far from the right place.   I also like it for its symbolism:   Down in the [Read More...]

The Qur‘an, on whether a finite book can contain all of the words of God

    “Say, ‘If the sea were ink for [writing] the words of my Lord, the sea would be exhausted before the words of my Lord were exhausted — even if we brought its like to replace it.”  (Qur’an 18:109)   Posted from Richmond, Virginia  

Thinking of the “Family Proclamation”

    “And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down that the rain stop thee not.”  (1 Kings 18:44)   The Church’s [Read More...]

“The Underwater Archaeologist Who Surfaced Not One, but TWO Ancient Egyptian Cities”

    I’m sure that much of the work is actually rather dull and quite mundane, but, as this article indicates, the payoffs can be remarkable:   The Underwater Archaeologist Who Surfaced Not One, But Two Ancient Egyptian Cities   Posted from Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina    

A world without God?

    Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.  (Alfred North Whitehead)   Posted from Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina    

“‘Put Away Childish Things’ — Changing How the World Sees the Book of Mormon”

    A nice introduction to Book of Mormon Central, from someone centrally involved in it:   http://www.studioetquoquefide.com/201...   Posted from Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina    

“Libya’s central bank hires safecrackers to break into its own safe”

    A curious story from the unfailingly interesting Middle East:   http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/05/...   Posted from Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina