Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 923

“Mormon scholars laud late Catholic thinker who probed LDS theology”

    Peggy Fletcher Stack’s take on the passing of Stephen Webb, in the Salt Lake Tribune:   http://www.sltrib.com/news/lds/364003...    

“Cosmos, Earth, and Man” in my two eager hands

    You may or may not be aware that the Interpreter Foundation not only publishes a journal and posts scripture roundtable discussions, but also issues books.  Here are the volumes that have already been published:   Books   And I’m pleased to say that I now have, in my hot little hands, a copy [Read More...]

Two lectures on the BYU campus tomorrow at 4 PM, and one following

    I really wish that I could hear this lecture tomorrow afternoon, at BYU’s Wheatley Institution, in which the speaker will contend that America is, as a matter of fact and contrary to many predictions and some perceptions, not growing more secular:   http://wheatley.byu.edu/events/indivi...   Unfortunately, I’m scheduled to speak at precisely the same [Read More...]

“Jacob 1-4. Seek the Kingdom of God”

    Taylor Halverson offers another helpful item for students and teachers in the Gospel Doctrine classes of the Church: Jacob 1-4. Seek the Kingdom of God.    

“Elder Holland answers questions from a missionary who returned early due to mental problems in personal video”

    http://www.ldsliving.com/Elder-Hollan...    

Haaretz: “A mission to bring Jewish bagels to the heart of Mormon country”

      http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/food/1....   Haaretz is Israel’s oldest daily newspaper.    

“Think You Can Drive Fast Enough to Escape an Erupting Volcano?”

    Or, in other words, are people in Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming doomed?   http://www.wired.com/2016/03/think-ca...    

BOM The Words of Mormon

    In today’s reading, The Words of Mormon, a voice from many centuries later, out of chronological order, shows up in the record.  It’s the voice of the prophet-editor Mormon, from whom the Book of Mormon as a whole takes its name.   The little book, known as “The Words of Mormon,” represents a major [Read More...]

So many losses

    With the sudden and untimely passing of Stephen Webb (you can read his obituary here), I find myself thinking back to a poem by Theodore Roethke about another premature death.  Oddly, I first came upon it, and was very moved by it, when it appeared in a college admissions test of some kind — [Read More...]

Mournful News

    Stephen H. Webb, 1961-2016 Inexpressibly sad.   Posted from San Jose, California