Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 993

On the Obama administration’s culpable incompetence in protecting our borders

    I hope that we can help the refugees who’re fleeing the turmoil in the Middle East.  It’s our human duty to do so.  For those of us who are Christians, it’s our Christian duty to do so.   But if the federal government under the Obama administration is going to be this deliberately [Read More...]

Five atheists who lost faith in atheism

    http://www.christiantoday.com/article...   Thanks to Kevin Taylor for calling my attention to this interesting article.  I’ve spent considerable time with the work of each of these writers, and have written columns on at least two or three of them.    

Save the planet: Eat more bacon

    My friend John Gee has alerted me to this urgently important item from the world of science:   http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/12/15...    

Socks wear out, fruitcake disgusts, but BOOKS?

  Actually, I like fruitcake.     Don’t forget, as you make your Christmas purchases or compile your Christmas wish-list, that the Interpreter Foundation publishes books:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/books/    

“Appreciation and the myth of the zero-sum game”

    New in the Deseret News from Taylor Halverson:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   While I’m at it, I greatly appreciate Dr. Halverson’s contributions, not only to the Interpreter Foundation and the Deseret News, but elsewhere.    

“If you don’t believe that country, honor, and Allah can co-exist, meet these Muslim Boy Scouts”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...   Thanks to Jabra Ghneim for calling this article to my attention.    

“Why we need a Savior”

    From the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as part of its 2015 Christmas campaign “A Savior is Born”:   https://www.mormon.org/christmas/purp...   If you haven’t yet seen this, please watch it.   If you’re a believing Latter-day Saint and you haven’t shared it yet, please do.    

Music of Christmas 15

    If you get the chance, watch BYU Television’s film about the creation of G. W. F. Händel’s great oratorio Messiah:   http://byu.imodules.com/redirect.aspx...   You’ll never hear the aria “He was despised” quite the same way again.   Even the New York Times gave the documentary a reasonably positive review:  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/art....    

A very merry very secular Christmas! (Episode Two)

    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. Richard Dawkins    

“Christmas Caroling”

    The thirteenth and last installment in the “Social” portion of the 2015 Christmas campaign “A Savior is Born”:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxZ2s...