Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 93

This is not a way in which I, at least, want to help fulfill prophecy

    I’ve begun to read Sean McDowell and Jonathan Morrow, Is God Just a Human Invention? And Seventeen Other Questions Raised by the New Atheists (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2010).  On pages 11-12, they quote an observation from Timothy Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism: Three generations ago, most people […]

Fortifying the Mountain of the Lord

    Here are links to three items that have recently been posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Conference Talks:  “The Day of Atonement, the Mosaic Temple, and the Christian Sacrament of Communion: Links and Symbols” This presentation was given by Shon D. Hopkin at the Interpreter Foundation’s 2014 Temple on Mount […]

Standing with Mike Parker

    It hasn’t been an especially pleasant week or two for Mike Parker, a friend of mine and a really good guy who, under the pseudonym of Peter Pan, has run a sadly necessary blog called Neville-Neville Land for the past several years.  Mike has been taking quite undeserved hostile fire from a curiously […]

An untrustworthy NDE account?

    Several years ago, I posted a quotation from George G. Ritchie, M.D., regarding the near-death experience that he purported to have had in 1943, when he was twenty years old and serving in the military: “What did you do with your life? It seemed to be a question about values, not facts: What […]

Another faith-promoting encounter with law enforcement

    I’m still somewhat in the autobiographical vein, and I’ve elected to continue what I began yesterday with yet another story — one that I, anyhow, find amusing — of how my affiliation with the Church (or more specifically, in this case, with its flagship university) helped me in dealing with traffic tickets given […]

A youthful experience before the bar of justice

    I’ve already told this story here before, but I’m not feeling well and I’m very tired, and I thought that I could maybe smooth out the retelling of it for eventual inclusion in my personal history:   I received my California driver’s license when I was sixteen, and I graduated from high school […]

She’s moving on.

    Because of illness, my wife and I and one of our sons were unable to participate in the funeral of my brother’s widow this morning in San Gabriel, California.  That saddens me greatly.  I would deeply like to have been there.  However, we were able to watch the services via the modern and, […]

A note on Latter-day Saint attitudes toward other religious faiths

    First, though, a thought about earthquakes and divine providence.  I submitted this column to Meridian way back on 27 February, and I had to re-read it this morning to see whether I still agreed with it.  (I do.)  I’m grateful that it has finally appeared: “A Purpose in Life’s Earthquakes” No other planet […]

Ice Cream Among the Health Foods

    Mann tracht un Gott lacht is an old Yiddish proverb that means “Man Plans and God Laughs.”  I was scheduled to be down in southern California by about now.  I was to speak at my sister-in-law’s funeral in San Gabriel on Friday and then, thereafter, to visit with people in Santa Barbara on […]

Tabernacle and Constitution

    I spoke for about twenty minutes early this afternoon to members of the Utah Valley Interfaith Association and representatives of local government and other groups in connection with the full-size model of the ancient Israelite tabernacle that is currently located there.  The model, which is open for free tours, stands adjacent to the […]