Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 927

“Global warming hiatus is real”

    Oh my.  Potentially awkward.   And just when I was about to book a beachfront vacation in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica:   http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/24/glo...    

On the speech that Mitt Romney will be delivering at 9:30 AM, Utah time, on Thursday

    Allahpundit:  “Oh my: Mitt Romney to deliver ‘major speech’ on 2016 race tomorrow” . Washington Post:  “What Mitt Romney should say”      

Two items from the secularist, socialist utopia of Sweden

      “Sweden’s Trademark Universal Healthcare On Its Deathbed”   http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wor...   Thanks to Kevin Taylor for alerting me to the second item.    

A most radical question

    The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value — that is, something that makes living worthwhile. Alister E. McGrath     The English word radical comes from the Latin radix, or “root.”  This is a question, in [Read More...]

“NASA: Drought in Middle East Is the Worst in 900 Years”

    Whether you believe it to be human-induced climate change or not, this is still quite a big deal and much more fundamentally important than many of the more prominent headlines:   http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-ne...   I myself have seen the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee shrink considerably since my first visit to the [Read More...]

BOM Enos

    Today’s reading, the single-chapter book of Enos, offers one of the most popular brief stories in the Book of Mormon, a story that is often cited to illustrate points about prayer, forgiveness, and many other topics.  And rightly so.   I’ll pick up a couple of aspects of it.   First, any parent, and perhaps any missionary, [Read More...]

The French Book of Mormon: Written for Our Time

    A reader of this blog who goes by the name of “brotheroflogan” reminds me of an interesting fact:   Dan, I thought you’d be interested to know what I found out. I was reading my French Book of Mormon and the word that they used to describe Amalickiah’s “deception” is tromperie, from the [Read More...]

“There are no homosexual members of the Church.”

    So said Elder David A. Bednar, of the Council of the Twelve.   And, quite predictably, he’s being depicted by a number of critics as insane, a bitter hater, oppressive, tyrannical, a homophobic bigot, oblivious to reality, an embarrassment to Mormonism, someone who ought to resign, in denial, and so forth.   Now, on one [Read More...]

“Out of Mesoamerica: The Archaeological Context of the Book of Mormon”

    An interesting blog entry from Stephen Smoot (who, by the way, was just accepted as a graduate student in Egyptology at the University of Toronto):   http://www.plonialmonimormon.com/2016...   In other, weirder, news, Br’er Smoot was recently featured on Conan O’Brien’s network television show.  (I’m not making this up.)  Be warned, if you choose to [Read More...]

“Church Assists Cyclone Winston Victims in Fiji”

    It’s nice to hear of the good things that the Church and its members are doing:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article...