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“The King Follett Discourse in the Light of Ancient and Medieval Jewish and Christian Beliefs”

    My longtime friend John Tvedtnes presented these remarks at the August 2004 FAIR conference:   http://www.fairmormon.org/perspective...    

BOM 2 Nephi 10

      A few brief notes on today’s reading, which is 2 Nephi 10.   Especially if one views of the Book of Mormon as a modern production, and especially in the light of the horrific treatment of Jews that has repeatedly scarred human history during the years intervening since 1830, it would be easy to [Read More...]

The great virtue of a free market system

    “The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one [Read More...]

More on that new ninth planet, “Planet X”

    http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-...    

“Morocco Declaration: Muslim Nations Should Protect Christians from Persecution”

    I’ve been watching for this over the past week or two.  It’s significant.  Thanks to Jabra Ghneim for bringing these specific items to my attention:   “Morocco Declaration: Muslim Nations Should Protect Christians from Persecution” Here’s the actual (English) text of the document in question: Marrakesh Declaration

Of General Authorities and “Criminal Minds”

    The CBS television series Criminal Minds regularly closes with some quotation or other that supplies insight, or makes a point, relevant to the theme of the story that’s just concluded.  It gives the quotation and then the name of the quotation’s author.  No more.  Nothing is said about the author beyond his or [Read More...]

“Explaining Away the Book of Mormon Witnesses”

    Richard Lloyd Anderson, one of the finest scholars that Mormonism has ever produced, delivered this presentation at the 2004 FAIR conference:   http://www.fairmormon.org/perspective...    

Fresno this weekend

    In case anybody out there is interested:   I’ll be giving two firesides in the Fresno, California, area this weekend.  They’ll be more or less identical, both on the rough topic of “Behind the Headlines in the Middle East”:   Friday, January 29th – Fireside in the Fresno Stake Center (5685 N Cedar Ave, Fresno, CA 93710) [Read More...]

The personal character of the current Republican frontrunner

    Kudos to Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) for raising the not-unimportant issue of Donald Trump’s personal character, as that character is represented by what seems to be a remarkably tawdry social life:   http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/...   And kudos to the Southern Baptist Convention’s Russell Moore, for asking the question “Have Evangelicals who support Trump lost their values?” [Read More...]

BOM 2 Nephi 9

    I could devote several days to today’s wonderfully rich chapter, 2 Nephi 9.  Certainly I could write much more than I’m going to write here.   However, true to my constraining but (for me) life-saving rule that I will only comment briefly on each chapter, I’m going to restrict myself to 2 Nephi 9:10: [Read More...]