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Perhaps the last reminder that I’ll post for this . . .

California college students object to Madeleine Albright as white war criminal

    She served on the National Security Council under Democratic President Jimmy Carter and, during the administration of Democratic President Bill Clinton, she became the nation’s first female Secretary of State.   But that isn’t enough, in some eyes, to qualify her to be a commencement speaker:   http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/04/04/...    

A little girl’s horrible Easter and the evils of Mormonism

    I’ve received a number of (sometimes very foul) email, Facebook, and other challenges over the past few days — the Church’s semiannual general conference seems to enrage certain folks, judging from the fact that I’ve experienced similar spikes over past conference weekends, as well — calling me to account for the horrific evils that Mormonism [Read More...]

Start planning for May 2017

    I suppose it’s probably too late to get on this year’s tour, but, if you would like to go to the Holy Land someday, perhaps you should consider joining this group:   Holy Land Tour    

“What this year’s early Easter date tells us about early Christianity”

    I’m late with this — Easter’s already past — but John Gee makes a very interesting point here that, frankly, hadn’t occurred to me before:   http://fornspollfira.blogspot.com/201...    

“References to Jesus in Pagan Literature”

    “Mythicism” — the notion not only that Jesus wasn’t divine but that he probably never existed at all — has become very popular among some online atheists and religious skeptics.  (It’s found little support among scholars in the relevant disciplines, whatever their religious views.  They tend, in my experience, to have no great [Read More...]

BOM Mosiah 20

    The remarkable story that begins in Mosiah 20, the chapter on which I’m commenting today, is a straightforward and interesting one.  But there’s a great deal that can be, and has been, said about it.   Here, for example, is an article by my longtime friend and former BYU and Maxwell Institute colleague S. [Read More...]

“Nonprofits inundated after LDS Church urges women to serve refugees”

    This is fantastic:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   This is the kind of thing that I really want the Church and the Saints to be known for.  We are disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Ahead of all politics and all national allegiances, important as they are, we are followers of the Savior.    

Complain, or rejoice?

    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” Attributed to Abraham Lincoln (probably falsely)    

This coming Wednesday!

    Upcoming Lectures: Editing Out the “Bad Grammar” in the Book of Mormon