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“The Longest Voyage: Lehi’s Journey to the Promised Land”

    From his base in Brisbane, Australia, Warren Aston has been doing pioneer work for decades now on the the Lehite sojourn in Arabia.   Here’s his most recent article:   http://ldsmag.com/the-longest-voyage-...    

This coming Sunday night in the Phoenix area

    So, to sum up, there’s an event on Friday at noon and another on Saturday evening, both at the LDS Institute in Tempe.  And then, on Sunday night, there’s the event described above.    

“The Enormous Fraud of the Iran Deal is Catching Up with Obama”

    This author doesn’t seem to feel very positive about Mr. Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...   It’s a somewhat lengthy and very serious piece.    

An example of how claims by bitter critics of Mormonism may not be altogether reliable

    Some of you may find this interesting:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   It conflicts just a bit with the assertion by some especially virulent anti-Mormons that, in this case — as in most if not all others — the Church jettisoned the missionaries once their usefulness for recruiting lucrative new tithe payers had been compromised.   [Read More...]

Is the universe genuinely pointless and random?

    “Can a truly absurd universe so convincingly mimic a meaningful one?”  Paul Davies, The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life?  

“A vote for Trump is a vote for abortion”

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/special...   Of course, if you like this kind of thing, this is the kind of thing that you’re going to like.   Trump in 2016!  Keep abortion legal, common, and lethal!    

“42 Shrines and a Tomb Discovered in Egypt”

    The new finds just keep coming:   http://www.livescience.com/54252-egyp...   And I have no doubt that they’ll continue to come.   Even in Egypt, which is one of the most intensively studied (because it’s, by far, one of the most interesting) archaeological areas in the world.    

“Is it intellectually honest to have faith?”

    The latest installment of my Thursday Deseret News column has appeared:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

From HuffPo: “Mormon Church Responds to Refugee Crisis (and It’s Remarkable!)”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-ad...    

“European Labor Laws and Radical Islam”

  Walker Wright takes an interesting approach to the problem of radicalization of European Muslims.  It warms my pro-free-market heart:   European Labor Laws and Radical Islam     My general viewpoint is that swollen state power is a bad thing on many levels.  This is a nice potential illustration of that principle.