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“Before Islam: When Saudi Arabia Was a Jewish Kingdom”

    History offers some real surprises, and takes some very strange turns:   http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeo...   Thanks to Jabra Ghneim for alerting me to this article.    

From the ashes, a symbol of the resurrection

    We’re looking forward to the dedication of the Provo City Center Temple.   There’s never been  temple-construction story quite like this one.  But it seems quite appropriate to me that its dedication is taking place during the Easter season.   Think about it:   The Saints built the old Provo Tabernacle back in [Read More...]

A report from Rexburg

    It’s been a gratifying day.  My wife and I did interviews with the film crew working on our little project centered on Robert Cundick, and we were also present when one of his sons was interviewed.  Bob’s wife, Charlotte, was also there.   We had dinner in the Manwaring Center, on the campus of Brigham [Read More...]

BOM Mosiah 7

  Just a couple of quick notes on today’s reading, Mosiah 7:   1)  Here, you begin to see the narrative split into parallel accounts, as we learn about the people of King Limhi in the land of Lehi-Nephi.  The book of Mosiah, which was dictated in just a few days, is quite complex.  But, at [Read More...]

Valuing the One

    God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.  (St. Augustine)   I’ve always found it significant that we do vicarious baptisms for the dead one at a time.  It would be so much more efficient if we could baptize dead people en masse, if we could perform all [Read More...]

“Earthquake threat to California may be greater than thought”

    Deeply disheartened at the rise of vulgar-populist Caesarotrumpism, I turn to something more cheerful:   http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016...   In the meantime, though, leftist politicians may still be able to destroy California’s economy more completely:   California’s Carl’s Jr. Says So Long, Golden State   Thanks to John Walters for calling my attention to the [Read More...]

“Is voting for Donald Trump unchristian?”

    The title is rather inflammatory, but this short piece is actually pretty thoughtful:   http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ss...   Posted from Idaho Falls, Idaho    

“The Redeemer,” tonight

    We would be heading home this morning after last night’s Mormon/Muslim dialogue here in Idaho Falls, were it not for a performance of Robert Cundick’s The Redeemer tonight on the Rexburg campus of Brigham Young University-Idaho:   http://www.byui.edu/center-stage/robe...   Oddly, I remember not particularly liking The Redeemer when I first heard it performed, [Read More...]

“The words of Easter”

    The latest installment of the joint Hamblin-Peterson column is up in the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   Posted from Idaho Falls, Idaho    

A divisive campaign of unprecedented nastiness

    Donald Trump expressed doubts about Ted Cruz’s evangelicalism.  Then he questioned Ben Carson’s Seventh-Day Adventism.  Now, he’s questioned Mitt Romney’s Mormonism:   “Trump on Romney: ‘Are You Sure He’s a Mormon?'”   And he’s just renewed his personal attacks on Megyn Kelly, of Fox News:   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/...   I don’t believe that there [Read More...]