Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 936

“Down with love: 9 movies to celebrate Singles Awareness Day”

    Okay.  Sorry.  So I’m a bit late with this one.   You can still watch these movies.  Or, if you like, you can bookmark this helpful list and be thoroughly ready for the seemingly endless onslaught of irritating Vermont Teddy Bear ads that will commence again in about 47 weeks:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   [Read More...]

“The demigod Maui and his islands”

    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

“A history of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ on TV and film”

    He is, bar none, my very favorite non-me writer for the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   It would have been quite inappropriate for me not to have excluded myself from the rankings, don’t you think?   I’m also a big Jane Austen fan.  (And I absolutely loathe the film version of Pride and Prejudice [Read More...]

New book: “Lehi and Sariah in Arabia”

    Warren Aston has been visiting Arabia and reading and thinking and writing about this topic for a very long time now.  His new book is now out.  I’ve just ordered it, and I’m very much looking forward to seeing it:   http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products...      

“Risen”

    My wife is still in Hawaii — I’ve been seamlessly replaced there by a neighbor and by her sister — and I’ve spent the whole day back here in the real world creating two midterm examinations with which to torment and afflict my students.  So I decided that I needed to go out for [Read More...]

“I love Mormons”

    And, as it happens, I like this article.  Very much.   http://www.heraldextra.com/momclick/p...    

“This is a Woman’s Church”

    In August 2014, Sharon Eubank delivered one of the most popular and well received presentations in the history of FairMormon (or FAIR).  She received a standing ovation.  You can read her remarks (or watch them; they’ll require just under 58 minutes) here:   http://www.fairmormon.org/perspective...    

“Onomastic Wordplay on ‘Joseph’ and ‘Benjamin’ and ‘Gezera Shawa’ in the Book of Mormon”

    Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture published two new articles today.  Here’s the second:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/onom...    

“’They Were Moved with Compassion’ (Alma 27:4; 53:13): Toponymic Wordplay on ‘Zarahemla’ and ‘Jershon'”

    New today, in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/they...    

“How ISIS recruits children, then kills them”

    There’s a new depth of evil here.  It’s almost without precedent:   http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/19/middlee...