Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 877

I’ve been asked what I think about this article

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article...   Victor Davis Hanson — a farmer, a prolific historian, and a political commentator with a Stanford Ph.D. in classics (!) who is now associated with Stanford’s Hoover Institution — is one of my favorite writers, so I’m happy to comply:   I understand that many good people, solid conservatives, are coming [Read More...]

“Mormons and Creedal Christians: Common Ground?”

    I’ve already called attention to the Protestant theologian Richard Mouw’s article in the journal First Things entitled “Mormons Approaching Orthodoxy,” and to the excellent response to it, in the same journal, by Terryl Givens.   Now, I’m happy to call to your notice yet another superb reply, also published in First Things.  This [Read More...]

A note on scientism

    ” . . . a view that we call ‘scientism’: and that is that science is the only way to truth.  Now that is just logically false, because the statement ‘science is the only way to truth’ is not a statement of science, so if it’s true, it’s false.” John Lennox, Ph.D. Sc.D. [Read More...]

“The surprisingly modern story of a medieval Muslim”

    I admire him very much and, during the time that I led BYU’s Islamic Translation Series, we published bilingual editions of two of his books:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...     Posted from Terricciola, Italy    

Science as an impetus to faith

    It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence. Allan Sandage (d. in San Gabriel, California, 2010), American astronomer   Posted from Terricciola, Italy   [Read More...]

DN: “Going up to Jerusalem”

    The hilly and elevated character of Jerusalem is one of its most obvious features.  (The Latter-day Saint creator of the beloved Christmas carol “Far, Far Away on Judea’s Plains” plainly never visited the Holy Land.)  One climbs up to the city, literally and physically.   However, because of its holiness and the longtime [Read More...]

LDS Charities

    Over the weekend, many of us enjoyed (or, perhaps, didn’t enjoy) American Mother’s Day.   My eye was caught just now by a new short video from the Church about making a mother’s day beautiful.  See it in the upper left corner of the LDS Charities website:   https://www.ldscharities.org   And, while you’re [Read More...]

The prophetic Eldridge Cleaver

    “It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going on in America today. This is a staggering reality to the rest of the world; they must feel like passengers in a supersonic jet liner who are forced to watch helplessly while a [Read More...]

A report, more or less, on what we’re up to here

    After we bade farewell to our Israel tour group, my wife and I spent an extra night in Tel Aviv.  We intended to do some sightseeing there — I’ve really never poked around Tel Aviv very much, and it has some very good museums — but . . . well, we relaxed, instead.  For [Read More...]

“Why the Book of Mormon’s Battle Numbers Don’t Add Up (And Why That’s Evidence for its Authenticity)”

    A nice piece from Stephen Smoot:   http://www.plonialmonimormon.com/2016...   Posted from Terricciola, Italy