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BOM Jacob 2

    Jacob 2 is a remarkable document, and it’s our reading for today.   This isn’t the first time, and it certainly won’t be the last, that my strict rule of being concise and of focusing on one or two or three items, but no more, will cause me regret.  But, realistically, I know [Read More...]

From the floor of the Utah State Senate

    I had the unique and enjoyable opportunity this morning of offering the invocation at the opening of today’s session of the Utah State Senate.  (The kind invitation for me to do so originated with Senator Margaret Dayton.)   I stayed for a while in the Senate chamber thereafter, and particularly enjoyed watching the vote [Read More...]

“Teaching faith and science to children”

    A very good article from Taylor Halverson:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

A plea, not just for civility but for charity

    Contrary to my reputation in some circles, I’ve never favored nor enjoyed no-holds-barred internet fisticuffs.  Nor have I ever supported personal attacks.   People who really know me, I think, will have no problem believing that, in fact, I’m very far from the image of the mean-spirited attack dog that some cherish of [Read More...]

“Iraqi Kurdish troops rescue Swedish teen from ‘Islamic State'”

    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/02/...   I very often find myself admiring the Kurds.  In a just world, there would be an independent Kurdistan.    

BOM Jacob 1

      In today’s reading, Jacob 1, the torch is passed.  Not quite to a new generation, but to Nephi’s younger brothers, Jacob and Joseph.  They had never known Jerusalem, but had been born during the journey down the Arabian coast to the New World.   There is a division, at the death of Nephi, between [Read More...]

“A conversation with Dr. John Sorenson”

  No doubt some of you are aware of John L. Sorenson, the dean of Mesoamerican-oriented Book of Mormon research, and of his work.  A dear friend of mine and my wife’s, John is now solidly into his nineties.   Here’s a nearly two-hour interview with him about his life and his research that was [Read More...]

“Exoplanet Census Suggests Earth is Special After All”

    Maybe Earth isn’t just a run-of-the-mill planet in an ordinary solar system revolving around a mediocre star in an insignificant place in a typical arm of an ordinary spiral galaxy:   http://www.scientificamerican.com/art...   I do, by the way, disagree with the author’s assumption — a very common one, and the one with which [Read More...]

The China Post: “Utah choir brings sounds of gospel, soul to Mormon hymns”

    Taiwan’s China Post has picked up an article from the Associated Press:   http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/music...   And, for what it’s worth, the article about Jewish Mormons to which I recently linked has now been picked up by Haaretz in Israel.   And President Henry B. Eyring has just rededicated the Suva Fiji Temple.  And Elder Juan A. [Read More...]

The socialist imperative

    Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich. William F. Buckley, Jr.