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April 16, 2016
Helping with a weak link to one of yesterday’s “Interpreter” articles
The link at this previous blog post is iffy, at best. Sometimes it appears, with visuals and extended text, which is great. But sometimes it doesn’t appear at all. (In other words, the New and Improved Link System isn’t always an improvement.) So I’m giving the to you here, as well, in a [Read More...]
“Not ‘Getting’ Religion: Boogeymen and Misunderstandings”
http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentar... Reading this piece, I couldn’t help but recall the clueless FBI agents who tried to deal with the Branch Davidian movement during the 1993 siege in Waco, Texas, that eventually culminated in the deaths of 87 people. They were aware that the group’s leader, David Koresh, was fixated on “the seven seals.” [Read More...]
April 15, 2016
“Mormonism and the Scientific Persistence of Circles: Aristotle, Spacetime, and One Eternal Round”
Perhaps we’re just feeling extravagant because our critics tell us that we’re supposed to be dead. Whatever the motivation, though, we decided to post not just one new article today, but two. Here’s the second: Mormonism and the Scientific Persistence of Circles: Aristotle, Spacetime, and One Eternal Round Posted from Mesa, Arizona [Read More...]
“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Map, Part 2 of 2”
Today is Friday, is it not? Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Map: Part 2 of 2 Posted from Mesa, Arizona
BOM Alma 5
Today’s reading, Alma 5, contains another of the Book of Mormon’s greatest sermons. I think it’s helpful, in reading through this sermon, to think of Alma’s own personal history. Remember his spectacular conversion story, which involved a dramatic appearance by an angel. That angelophany turned his life around and, as he saw it, [Read More...]
“To Lincoln, the face of Mormonism was George Q. Cannon, whose journals are now online”
As I pointed out last night, this is a really important new initiative: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86... Posted from Mesa, Arizona
BOM Alma 4
In today’s reading, Alma 4, we’re reminded that, at bottom, many of the most fundamental social, political, and economic problems are actually spiritual problems. Or, to put it another way, politics and government policy — important though they are — aren’t basic. Sometimes, the culture itself is sick and needs to be fixed. “Our [Read More...]
April 14, 2016
“Journal Released of 19th-Century Mormon Leader George Q. Cannon”
For anybody who is interested in the history of Mormonism during the second half of the nineteenth century, the beginnings of the Church in Hawaii, the issuing of the Manifesto ending plural marriage, and so forth, this is a really big deal: http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article... Over the course of several years back in the [Read More...]
If not for magnetism, you might be a simple bacterium right now
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/s... Of course, bacteria may be quite happy. Who’s to say that they’re not? Posted from Mesa, Arizona
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