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January 1, 2016
An interesting internal document from the battle for the soul of Islam
This reflects a battle of ideas — or a heartfelt and intense discussion, if you prefer — that is and ought to be going on within the Islamic community: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/junaid-j...
“‘Spectre’ villain fails neuroanatomy in latest Bond film”
Everyone’s a critic. http://www.stmichaelshospital.com/med... Next thing you know, somebody will be criticizing the latest Star Wars film on scientific grounds. “There’s no sound in space,” some carping skeptic will say. Or, “How come, if they can make an absolutely life-like prosthetic hand for Luke Skywalker, they can’t make a more flexible [Read More...]
BOM 1 Nephi 7
1 Nephi 7, my Book of Mormon reading material for today, lacks any and all traces of romantic love. Lehi’s sons are dispatched to persuade Ishmael and his family to join them on their journey to the New World, and a brief account is given of the negotiations. That’s not to say that [Read More...]
“Joseph Smith Read the Words”
Many have been puzzled by — and a few have vocally mocked — the assertion that the Book of Mormon contains linguistic features that were long obsolete by the time of Joseph Smith and that, in some cases, antedate the King James Version of the Bible. In this piece, one of the two [Read More...]
“The More Part of the Book of Mormon is Early Modern English”
First of all, Happy New Year! But neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor New Year’s Day stays Interpreter from the swift and timely completion of its appointed tasks. Thus, it being Friday as well as the first day of 2016, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture is in publishing [Read More...]
“Mormonism and the New Liberalism: The Inescapability of Political Apologetics”
My friend and colleague Ralph Hancock presented an important paper at the August 2013 FairMormon conference. It was controversial with some even there. I’m firmly convinced, though, that what he had to say deserves a careful hearing: http://www.fairmormon.org/perspective...
If he were ever wrong . . .
“I think apologizing’s a great thing, but you have to be wrong. I will absolutely apologize, sometime in the hopefully distant future, if I’m ever wrong.” (Donald J. Trump, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in September 2015)
December 31, 2015
“Heartland as Hinterland: The Mesoamerican Core and North American Periphery of Book of Mormon Geography”
There is an impassioned battle going on in some circles between adherents of the so-called “Heartland” model of Book of Mormon geography (e.g., Wayne May, Jonathan Neville, and Rod Meldrum), on the one hand, and, on the other, advocates of a Mesoamerican setting (as its been set froth by such writers as John [Read More...]
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