Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 894

A great approach to one’s job, and to one’s life

    Earlier today, I saw a snippet of an interview with the great Kobe Bryant, five-time NBA champion for the Los Angeles Lakers, who had just scored sixty points in his last professional game.  (Unfortunately, it was against the Utah Jazz.)   He was asked how he would like to be remembered.   I was [Read More...]

BOM Alma 3

    Three quick comments about Alma 3, the reading for today:   1.   This chapter raises the issue of dark skin color as a supposed sign of God’s curse.  Which, for many critics, immediately brands the Book of Mormon as racist, and particularly as a product of nineteenth-century American racism.   We believers sometimes respond quite [Read More...]

“$100 million plan will send probes to the nearest star”

    Did you happen to notice this one?   http://www.scientificamerican.com/art...   It involves Stephen Hawking, space travel, and a Russian billionaire.  Gotta be interesting.    

“Out of small things”

    The latest installment of my weekly Deseret News column is up:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   And the usual commenters have already begun to comment.   One of them faults the column for focusing only on the Abrahamic tradition.   It would have been nice to have included a few irrelevant chapters on Buddhism, Hinduism, [Read More...]

The citizen militias fighting ISIS in Iraq (one of them Christian)

    The militias that have sprung up to oppose the so-called “Islamic State” have my very best wishes in their fight:   http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-3599...    

“Why Do LGBT Radicals Want to Cleanse the Counseling Profession of Christians?”

    Frankly, some of these folks don’t seem to value freedom very much:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...          

“How highly religious people compare with other Americans”

    What do you think?   I find the data here really interesting, and worthy of discussion:   http://national.deseretnews.com/artic...    

An interesting event in Utah this weekend

    http://bmaf.org    

In which I reveal myself to be an idiot

    Everybody makes mistakes.  Even, it turns out, y’r obdt srvnt.   Tonight, I made a big one.   I was scheduled to give a fireside on the Book of Mormon up in Salt Lake City, and I totally spaced it.  I was busy with some pressing matters, and it completely fled my mind. [Read More...]

On condemning others

    “By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer (executed on 9 April 1945)