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2023-06-11T16:22:50-06:00

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No more need to leave home

Last updated on: June 11, 2023 at 4:22 pm By Dan Peterson

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Charles W. Penrose (1832–1925) was born into a relatively prosperous family in London, England. When, at eighteen years of age, he was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1850, his mother — who was by then a widow — disowned him and, albeit sorrowfully, he left her behind along with his three sisters. Approximately a year after his baptism, Penrose was called to serve as a missionary for the Church throughout... Read more

2023-06-10T15:28:02-06:00

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In the heart of Middle-earth?

Last updated on: June 10, 2023 at 3:28 pm By Dan Peterson

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We’re lodging not terribly far from Stonyhurst College, a residential school (formerly for boys only, but now coeducational) that has been ranked as the foremost Jesuit prep school in the English-speaking world and described as “Eton for Catholics.” We drove by it early this evening after dinner. The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins taught classics at Stonyhurst, and his poems are said to feature details drawn from the local countryside. Given the idyllic beauty of this area, it... Read more

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

2023-06-09T23:51:41-06:00

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Our only foreign-born Church president

Last updated on: June 9, 2023 at 11:51 pm By Dan Peterson

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Two new articles went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “The Holy Ghost in the Book of Moroni: Possessed of Charity,” written by Newell D. Wright and Val Larsen Abstract: The role played by the Holy Ghost is an especially important connecting thread that runs through the Book of Moroni. The book illuminates the various ways in which the Holy Ghost transforms fallen human beings into redeemed members of the kingdom of God. Three phrases —... Read more

2023-06-10T15:32:59-06:00

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Intimations of Antemortality

Last updated on: June 10, 2023 at 3:32 pm By Dan Peterson

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After a long day’s drive via country roads from Edinburgh via Hadrian’s Wall and the small market town of Alston, which has a Latter-day Saint historical connection, we’ve finally arrived at the justly famous Lake District, which is known not only for its beauty but for its association with William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and other notable poets and writers associated with English Romanticism. Not very far from us is Dove Cottage, in the village of Grasmere, which is famous... Read more

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English Romantic

Intimations of Immortality

2023-06-07T15:36:20-06:00

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About as Scottish as it gets

Last updated on: June 7, 2023 at 3:36 pm By Dan Peterson

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I’m not at all sure why, but, although I’ve visited Scotland on several previous occasions (including that wonderful week in my early twenties at St. Andrews) and although I have an unaccountable affection for the Celtic cross, last year was the first time that I had really felt the pull of my Scots ancestral line. I’ve long had a deep attachment to Norway, and I’m an Anglophile already, without regard to family heritage — though happily I have... Read more

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Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

2023-06-06T15:43:10-06:00

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“William McGonagall, Poet and Tragedian”

Last updated on: June 6, 2023 at 3:43 pm By Dan Peterson

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I have an anthology back home of the worst poems in the English language. It’s one of my most treasured possessions. Like Peter Schickele’s Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach, and Kehlog Albran’s The Profit, it has brought tears of laughter to my eyes whenever I’ve opened it to sup from its pages. So it was an unexpected thrill today, while visiting Grayfriars Kirkyard during our walking tour of Edinburgh, to be shown the grave — or, anyway, a... Read more

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Albion Battleship Calamity

2023-06-05T16:23:35-06:00

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“‘I refute it THUS.”

Last updated on: June 5, 2023 at 4:23 pm By Dan Peterson

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Here’s a nice piece by Jeff Lindsay that I commend to your attention: “Cherishing the Book of Mormon’s Teachings on the Fairness of God” *** I’ve posted several items recently on what is sometimes called “the hard problem of consciousness,” on the question of what subjective awareness is and how consciousness arises (if it does) from the physical brain. Some reductionists, faced with what seems to be an intractable problem, perhaps an insoluble one, have taken... Read more

2023-06-04T14:55:27-06:00

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Science and Religion: A Great Scottish Example

Last updated on: June 4, 2023 at 2:55 pm By Dan Peterson

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We drove through Aberdeen today — we’ve been in Aberdeenshire pretty much the whole time that we’ve been in Scotland — and it got me to thinking about the great James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), who was a Scot — born in Edinburgh — and who was affiliated for a few years with the University of Aberdeen. I make no claim of originality for what follows. I’ve simply culled some things from the Wikipedia article on Maxwell that interested... Read more

2023-06-03T12:02:54-06:00

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Fidelity Month

Last updated on: June 3, 2023 at 12:02 pm By Dan Peterson

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We’re now well into “Pride Month,” so it’s perhaps appropriate to register a trio of recent dissents from the now-dominant orthodoxy. Here’s one that comes from the great Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University and, incidentally, a good friend to Brigham Young University and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: “A Return to Fidelity: Princeton Professor’s Brilliant Move to Flip ‘Pride Month’ on... Read more

2023-06-02T14:05:37-06:00

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Plagiarizing Salomé?

Last updated on: June 2, 2023 at 2:05 pm By Dan Peterson

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I published this column early this morning in Meridian Magazine: “Prominent Lutheran Leader has “Holy Envy“ for Baptisms for the Dead” And two new articles went up at noon today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “The Dance of Reader and Text: Salomé, the Daughter of Jared, and the Regal Dance of Death,” written by Alan Goff Abstract: Modern readers too often and easily misread modern assumptions into ancient texts. One such notion is that when the... Read more

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