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More ISIS Depravity: Using Small Children to Kill People

    For those who may still not grasp the depth of the evil represented by ISIS, here’s a new glimpse:   http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wor...   For an eyewitness account of what life is like in ISIS’s capital of Raqqa, Syria, see here.    

“Four Accounts and Three Critiques of Joseph Smith’s First Vision”

    In August 2011, Professor Steven C. Harper presented these remarks to the annual FAIR (now FairMormon) conference:   http://www.fairmormon.org/perspective...    

BOM 2 Nephi 23

    Today’s reading, 2 Nephi 23, is equivalent to Isaiah 13.   In the first instance, it’s an oracle predicting the destruction of Babylon — though it’s certainly not difficult to see the divine judgment upon historical Babylon as representing the future divine judgment upon the world as a whole at the end of time. [Read More...]

Two prominent Latter-day Saints discuss religious liberty in eastern U.S. speeches

  1.   “Former US Senator Speaks of Religious Freedom’s Invaluable Contribution to America”     2.   “Elder Oaks speaks at Johns Hopkins: Religious freedom essential for free, prosperous society”    

Advice for your morning and your evening

    Let go of your plans.  The first hour of your morning belongs to God.  Tackle the day’s work that he charges you with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it. . . . And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has [Read More...]

Interpreter takes a serious hit for the good of the Saints and the Kingdom

    I’m simultaneously delighted and dismayed to report that Jeff Bradshaw, the Interpreter Foundation’s to-this-point indispensable vice president, has been called with his wife to serve the Lord, commencing this summer, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa Mission.   Jeff intends to continue his involvement with Interpreter, but, very plainly, it will [Read More...]

A State That Will Live in Infamy

    By handing Donald Trump a huge victory and otherwise muddling the Republican presidential waters, New Hampshire has put The Donald back into a dominant position for the party’s nomination.   Governor John Kasich has practically lived in New Hampshire for the past weeks and months.  He took a distant second in New Hampshire [Read More...]

“Hundreds of galaxies discovered hidden behind the Milky Way”

    Hundreds of hidden galaxies now finally found.  And each of them unimaginably vast:   http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-10...   (Thanks to David Wills for alerting me to this item.)   O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes [Read More...]

“Terryl Givens on What It Means to Sustain”

    A short but interesting item from one of Mormonism’s most prominent faithful intellectuals:   http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/...    

BOM 2 Nephi 22

    Today’s reading, 2 Nephi 22 (= Isaiah 12), is very short and, I think, quite straightforward.   Have a look at verse two.  Now look at Psalm 27:1.   Taken together, do they remind you of anything?