Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 925

“The Discipline of the Written Word”

    “The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.” John Steinbeck    

“Trump puts Idaho Mormons in tough spot”

    http://www.idahopress.com/members/tru...   Posted from Monterey, California  

“Jacob 1-4. Seek the Kingdom of God”

    If you’re not aware of the aids for study and teaching that Taylor Halverson has been putting up on the Interpreter Foundation website, take a look!  Here’s the latest: Jacob 1-4. Seek the Kingdom of God.   Posted from Monterey, California  

In the New York Times: “Donald Trump, the Great Betrayer”

    A powerful piece:   http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/opi...   On a closely related matter:   Most of the media talking-head reactions that I heard to Mitt Romney’s Thursday speech regarding Donald Trump were stunningly negative.  That’s been discouraging.  I’ve lost a lot of respect for people like Andrea Tantaros and Laura Ingraham, for instance, over their responses.   [Read More...]

“What are the demographics of heaven?”

    This somewhat speculative but exceedingly interesting article was brought to my attention by Jabra Ghneim:   http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/w...   Among other things, I find it oddly encouraging.  Why?  Because it suggests that (come the Millennium?) the task of redeeming the dead is actually practically possible, at least in terms of sheer numbers.  Given increasing [Read More...]

“An open letter to Trump supporters and the other Republican candidates”

    Kent Budge, who comments on my blog, has written a blog entry of his own, elsewhere, with which I completely agree.  So completely, in fact, that, at least on a first reading, there isn’t a single sentence that I wouldn’t happily have written myself:   An open letter to Trump supporters and the [Read More...]

“Kings and Conversion”

    The most recent installment of the biweekly Hamblin/Peterson Deseret News column is now up:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   Posted from Monterey, California    

“We should remember our dying”

    It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. John Steinbeck (d. 1968)   Posted from Monterey, California    

Did God design the human hand?

    I’m not especially competent to judge the argument scientifically and, for reasons specific to my own particular theology, I don’t actually have much invested in the issue.   But the kerfuffle is interesting and, to some extent, amusing:   http://www.wired.com/2016/03/science-...   Plainly, from their names, the three co-authors are know-nothing Bible Belt rubes [Read More...]

A stunning historical revelation about the iconic Eliza R. Snow?

    It’s difficult to tell from a newspaper article how firmly grounded this allegation is, but, if it’s true, it both shocks and (potentially) sheds instructive light on several facts about her biography:   http://www.sltrib.com/home/3613791-15...   Posted from Monterey, California