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2025-07-08T12:28:10-06:00

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Not a prudent move, but a brilliantly successful one

Last updated on: July 8, 2025 at 12:28 pm By Dan Peterson

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Some of you, I think, will enjoy this: “How to watch the Tabernacle Choir’s pilot of ‘Music & the Spoken Word’ in Spanish: The Spanish pilot of the Tabernacle Choir’s ‘Music & the Spoken Word’ airs Sunday, July 30” There is much food for thought in the survey data reported here. I’m not sure whether to be encouraged or discouraged: “Where Boomer Faith in God Is Low, Gen Z Belief Is Up: What nearly 20,000 people in 26... Read more

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2023-07-29T20:58:11-06:00

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“Nephi’s Eight Years in the ‘Wilderness'”

Last updated on: July 29, 2023 at 8:58 pm By Dan Peterson

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Two new items went up on Friday on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “Nephi’s Eight Years in the “Wilderness”: Reconsidering Definitions and Details,” written by Godfrey J. Ellis Abstract: A traditional reading of Nephi’s chronicle of the trek through Arabia relies heavily on two verses in 1 Nephi 17. In verse 4, Nephi states that they “did sojourn for the space of many years, yea, even eight years in the wilderness.” In verse 5, he reports that... Read more

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2023-07-27T18:41:22-06:00

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Cosmology and Cosmic Design, Again

Last updated on: July 27, 2023 at 6:41 pm By Dan Peterson

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“2023 FAIR Conference: Ticket sales close on July 28! Save your spot now!“ I disagreed fairly comprehensively with what I knew of her views on politics and religion, but I did and do love her rendition of “Nothing Compares 2 U”: “Singer, activist Sinead O’Connor has died at the age of 56: O’Connor, the controversial Irish singer-songwriter who transformed Prince’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ into a power ballad that became a No. 1 hit worldwide, died of unknown... Read more

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2023-07-27T11:08:31-06:00

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Does faith in God require rational arguments?

Last updated on: July 27, 2023 at 11:08 am By Dan Peterson

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Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation “Conference Talks: The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be,” originally presented by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw on Saturday, 12 March 2016, at the 2016 Second Interpreter Science & Mormonism Symposium: Body, Brain, Mind, and Spirit. Moreover, two new items went up yesterday on the Interpreter Foundation’s website: Come, Follow Me — New Testament Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 32, July 31 — August 6: Acts 22–28 — “A Minister... Read more

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2023-07-25T18:55:15-06:00

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“Whirr! whirr! all by wheels! — whiz! whiz! all by steam!”

Last updated on: July 25, 2023 at 6:55 pm By Dan Peterson

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I’ve been thinking today, as I sometimes do, of the perils of reliance upon translators and translations. In such pondering, a specific book often comes to mind, Curiously, and although I own a copy of it, even now I still haven’t read the entirety of Alexander Kinglake’s 1844 book Eothen; or Traces of travel brought home from the East. But one particular passage — a fictional conversation between an English visitor and an Ottoman (Osmanli) pasha by means... Read more

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2023-07-25T10:49:45-06:00

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A Deep Dive for Extraterrestrial Life

Last updated on: July 25, 2023 at 10:49 am By Dan Peterson

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I read a really interesting article in the New York Times today, about a recent expedition led by Avi Loeb. I don’t know how many of you, if any, will be able to access it. Just in case you can, though, here’s a link to it: “Scientist’s Deep Dive for Alien Life Leaves His Peers Dubious: Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist, says that material recovered from the seafloor could be from an extraterrestrial spacecraft. His peers are skeptical.”... Read more

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2023-07-24T11:01:25-06:00

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Visiting a remarkable town in western Wyoming on a remarkable day

Last updated on: July 24, 2023 at 11:01 am By Dan Peterson

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Tomorrow is Pioneer Day — a legal holiday in Utah, but an anniversary that is observed, in one way or another, by many Latter-day Saints beyond the borders of my adopted home state. (Please see my 21 July 2023 article in Meridian Magazine.) On Saturday, 22 July, after joining the audience for the annual Pioneer Day parade in Cokeville, Wyoming, my wife and I were the speakers in the church there for their Pioneer Day program. We drove... Read more

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2023-07-22T19:31:47-06:00

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“Life as a Probation”

Last updated on: July 22, 2023 at 7:31 pm By Dan Peterson

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I’m late in calling attention to it — for the perfectly valid reason that I had no Internet access over roughly the past thirty hours, either because I was on the road between Orem, Utah, and Cokeville, Wyoming, or because I was in a location in Cokeville without access to WiFi. But I published an article in Meridian Magazine yesterday that some might find perhaps only slightly objectionable: “Why Pioneer Day is a Celebration for Church Members Across... Read more

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2023-07-20T16:48:48-06:00

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Joseph, the Keys, and the Twelve

Last updated on: July 20, 2023 at 4:48 pm By Dan Peterson

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New just yesterday on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conference Talks: In the Visions of the Night: The Human Brain and Divine Revelation, originally presented by Brant A. Gardner on Saturday, 12 March 2016, at the 2016 Second Interpreter Science & Mormonism Symposium: Body, Brain, Mind, and Spirit. *** Hal Boyd is always interesting, and this recent article for the Deseret News especially caught my notice: “The winds of change: The Middle East is in... Read more

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2023-07-20T10:40:36-06:00

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Belief under conditions of uncertainty

Last updated on: July 20, 2023 at 10:40 am By Dan Peterson

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Earlier today, one of the commenters on this blog — I hope that he won’t mind my describing him as a non-believer — posted the following: When faced with an unresolvable uncertainty, the correct response is agnosticism, not to embrace whatever hope or bias you have. You can want or hope, but the moment you let your desire outweigh your objectivity, you’re going to quickly find ways to reinforce it. No-one’s perfect at avoiding this, but that doesn’t... Read more

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