Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 88

She would have been nine years old this week

    I maintain a blog for many reasons. One of them is purely personal:  It’s a kind of journal for me, and, even more particularly, it’s a way of remembering things, and especially of remembering people, whose memory I refuse to allow to be wholly lost. So, for instance, I’m afraid that readers of […]

Of religion, higher education, and other matters

    In the 11 June 2023 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show, Terry Hutchinson, John Gee, and Kevin Christensen discussed Come, Follow Me New Testament lesson 28, the Restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood, the Joseph Smith Papers project and recent book titles and Interpreter articles. The “New Testament in Context” portion of the 11 June 2023 […]

“The Last Leaf”

    A new item has gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:  Conference Talks:  “Notes from Stephen H. Webb,“ which was presented on behalf of the then recently deceased Stephen H. Webb at the 2016 Second Interpreter Science & Mormonism Symposium: Body, Brain, Mind, and Spirit on Saturday, 12 March 2016: Science and […]

“Did Christ Visit England?”

    I published a new article in Meridian Magazine yesterday, and I hope that somebody, somewhere, will read it:  “Did Christ Visit England?”     Our superb Latter-day Saint guide here in the United Kingdom, Peter Fagg, shared a couple of quotations with us a few days back that, with his kind help, I […]

Let us remember Emma Jackson Adams

    A young Englishwoman named Emma Jackson (1830-1885) converted to the church by 1852 if not earlier, because, by that year, she was in Liverpool preparing to emigrate to Zion.  While still there in Liverpool she met a fellow convert named Samuel Lorenzo Adams (1833-1910).  Eventually, Brother Adams was called into the office of […]

No more need to leave home

    Charles W. Penrose (1832–1925) was born into a relatively prosperous family in London, England.  When, at eighteen years of age, he was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1850, his mother — who was by then a widow — disowned him and, albeit sorrowfully, he left […]

In the heart of Middle-earth?

    We’re lodging not terribly far from Stonyhurst College, a residential school (formerly for boys only, but now coeducational) that has been ranked as the foremost Jesuit prep school in the English-speaking world and described as “Eton for Catholics.”  We drove by it early this evening after dinner. The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins […]

Our only foreign-born Church president

    Two new articles went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “The Holy Ghost in the Book of Moroni: Possessed of Charity,” written by Newell D. Wright and Val Larsen Abstract: The role played by the Holy Ghost is an especially important connecting thread that runs through the Book of Moroni. The […]

Intimations of Antemortality

    After a long day’s drive via country roads from Edinburgh via Hadrian’s Wall and the small market town of Alston, which has a Latter-day Saint historical connection, we’ve finally arrived at the justly famous Lake District, which known not only for its beauty but for its association with William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and other […]

About as Scottish as it gets

    I’m not at all sure why, but, although I’ve visited Scotland on several previous occasions (including that wonderful week in my early twenties at St. Andrews) and although I have an unaccountable affection for the Celtic cross, last year was the first time that I had really felt the pull of my Scots […]