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Just a thought or two on being a Mormon

    I was sitting in my high priests group meeting earlier today, and, as I looked around, I thought what a good group it was to be with.  I counted at least eleven or twelve former bishops sitting around me, for example, and I know of many remarkable acts of service associated with most of [Read More...]

“Columbus Ledger-Inquirer”: “Longtime Mormon seeks to educate masses with new book”

    It’s a worthy effort.  The article, published by a newspaper based in Columbus, Georgia, has — as could easily have been predicted — brought out a number of haters and religious bigots.  But it’s a decent article, in and of itself:   http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/living...   Of course, neither the book nor the article was [Read More...]

“Capernaum bears witness of Christ”

      Here’s a column that I published nearly six years ago in the Deseret News, about one of my favorite biblical sites in the land of Israel:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/70...    

“Half-Time” in Ancient Rome

    Some propagandists for atheism would have you believe that, in order to be truly evil, humans must be motivated by religion.  This article provides convincing evidence — though vastly more such evidence could be supplied, from every era and every culture – that such insinuations are historically unsupportable and, indeed, blatantly untrue:   http://www.livescience.com/53615-horr... [Read More...]

President Uchtdorf recounts his childhood experience as a two-time refugee

    A brief article with some still photographs, accompanied by a video that lasts just slightly more than three minutes:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article...    

BOM 2 Nephi 19

    Today’s reading, 2 Nephi 19 (= Isaiah 9) is full of messianic language.  No wonder it’s been a favorite over many Christian generations.   “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined” (verse 2).   [Read More...]

“13 Hours”

    Well, I finally saw 13 Hours.   It’s a very gripping movie, and not really — despite how we know the story turned out — as much of a downer as I had expected it to be.  Nor, although there’s obviously plenty of violence in it, was it unduly graphic.  I went partly out [Read More...]

What is humility?

    Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. C. S. Lewis    

“What Next for the Left?”

    My friend Ralph Hancock calls my attention to this somewhat longish but brilliant essay by James W. Ceaser of the University of Virginia:   http://www.weeklystandard.com/what-ne...   Its insights and implications go far beyond mere partisan politics, and even beyond politics altogether.    

An Appeal to the Voters of New Hampshire

    It’s overwhelmingly likely that The Donald will win the Republican primary in New Hampshire.  But Republican and independent voters there have the glorious opportunity to finish off his non-substantive and irritating campaign.  Will they seize their chance?  Will they make the nation proud?   If Mr. Trump were to come in second there [Read More...]