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BOM 1 Nephi 14

    Today’s reading is 1 Nephi 14.   I’m going to continue focusing on a topic that I raised yesterday, regarding 1 Nephi 13.  That topic is the “great and abominable church.”   I said yesterday that I don’t believe that the idea can be sustained that that phrase refers to the Roman Catholic Church. [Read More...]

“Little bits of good”

    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”  Archbishop Desmond Tutu    

“Yellowstone about to blow? Scientists warning over SUPER-VOLCANO that could kill MILLIONS”

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/science...   Is it just coincidence that Wyoming’s governor is a Republican, that every member of its congressional delegation (both Senate and House) is a Republican, and that its state legislature is overwhelmingly Republican?   Hmmmmm?   It’s clear that Republicans just don’t care about the environment.   No Democrat-controlled state has permitted [Read More...]

“Editorial In Saudi Daily: The West Made Mistakes With North Korea; It Is Now Repeating Them With Iran”

    An opinion from the Middle East, from one of Iran’s neighbors:   http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/...    

“Faithful Latter-day Saints Dealing with the New LDS policy on Same-Sex Marriage”

    A calm, believing voice:   http://mormanity.blogspot.com/2016/01...    

“Untangling Scripture from the Philosophies of Men”

    Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture wishes you a very happy Friday and a pleasant weekend with yet another article:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/unta...    

“Christian Printer Punished by the Gov’t for Refusing to Print Gay Pride T-Shirts”

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/...   (Thanks to Kevin Taylor for alerting me to this item.)   Is a Jewish printer legally obligated to produce materials for the American Nazi Party if the Nazis request his services?   Should a black tailor be compelled to create robes for the Ku Klux Klan?   Must a homosexual owner [Read More...]

“‘Look Over All the Land Round About’: El Mirador!”

    In this final entry from his recent trip to archaeological sites in Mesoamerica, Neal Rappleye reports on the magnificent ruins of a large Preclassic Maya city — El Mirador, in lowland Guatemala’s Petén — reflecting along the way on the potential significance of some of its features for understanding the Book of Mormon: [Read More...]

Robert M. Cundick: “Well done, thou good and faithful servant”

    My wife and I were very saddened this morning — though not altogether surprised, since he had been ailing for quite some time — to learn that our dear friend Bob Cundick, distinguished composer and former Tabernacle organist and one of the kindest, humblest, most sincere men we’ve ever known, had passed away. [Read More...]

BOM 1 Nephi 13

    There is much, very much, that could be discussed in the comparatively long chapter of 1 Nephi 13.  But, mercifully constrained by the life-saving, self-imposed requirement that I be brief, I’ll limit myself to passing mention of two items.   1.   It’s in this chapter that we meet Nephi’s famous “great and abominable [Read More...]