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“Why There’s No Such Thing as a Same-Sex Mormon Family”

    http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/08/w...    

The Qur’an, on killing innocent people

    For that cause, We decreed for the Children of Israel that whoever kills a person except for murder or corruption in the land, it’s as if he had killed all humankind.  But whoever saves a life, it’s as if he had saved the life of all humankind.  Our messengers had come to them [Read More...]

The Church issues a strong statement on religious freedom

    I judge it highly unlikely that this statement was issued at this particular time by sheer chance, without any connection to recent proposals that would monitor, register, round up, ban, and/or expel Muslims for the simple fact of their religious faith:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article...   I’m very pleased.    

Credit where credit is due

    I always try to thank people who bring interesting items to my attention (often for use on my blog).   It’s plainly the right thing to do, and — self-interestedly — I hope that they’ll continue to alert me to good stuff.   But I forgot to thank Phillip Carthew yesterday for the [Read More...]

Perhaps the single most offensive, disgusting newspaper column I’ve ever read in the United States

    Linda Stasi, writing in the New York Daily News, has taken American opinion journalism to a remarkable new low:   http://www.nydailynews.com/news/natio...   Fourteen people were killed by two radical Islamist murderous in San Bernardino last week.   But she recognizes only thirteen innocent victims.   The fourteenth, Nicholas Thalasinos, essentially deserved what he [Read More...]

The new SquareTwo

    I’ve just received the following note from Valerie Hudson Cassler:   Welcome to the Fall 2015 issue of SquareTwo! The full table of contents can be found on our archives page here.   We’d like to announce two new editorial board members: Neylan McBaine, founder of the Mormon Women’s Project and author of Women at [Read More...]

Putting human faces on the violence unleashed by ISIS

    And please watch this extraordinarily moving 2.5-minute “letter” from the husband of one of the victims in Paris to the people who sponsored the attacks:   http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-...      

“At 18, I chose the LDS Church over polygamy”

    A unique perspective on the recently-controversial policy of the LDS Church regarding homosexual marriages and the children of homosexual couples:   http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/3261558...      

New Testament 328

    John 16:29-33   Jesus is confident here that, even though the disciples will be scattered, he won’t be alone because the Father will be with him.   I think, though, that even he may have been surprised by what he would soon experience during the process of the Atonement.  Because, for a period [Read More...]

“But they were filled with confusion, and began to do penance.”

    “It was said of Abba John the Persian that when some evildoers came to harm him, he took a basin and wanted to wash their feet.  But they were filled with confusion, and began to do penance.” From the “Sayings of the Desert Fathers”   I can’t help but be reminded of Alma 24 – a remarkable [Read More...]