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2023-02-14T20:20:03-07:00

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“He gets us”: Fascism with a Happy Face?

Last updated on: February 14, 2023 at 8:20 pm By Dan Peterson

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If you watched the Super Bowl on Sunday — and there’s really no need to raise your hand or to identify yourself; you know who you are — you very likely saw one or two of the Christian ads that ran during the game from the “He gets us” campaign. The potential audience for the ads was, I’m told, more than one hundred million people. Important as it is, and as worthy of discussion as it is, I’m... Read more

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Are you an unlovable Christian nationalist like me?

Last updated on: March 3, 2023 at 10:15 pm By Dan Peterson

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There have been a couple of polls in the news over the past week or two that touch on Latter-day Saints, and they’ve been followed by some very animated conversations about what they portend. (A substantial proportion of American Latter-day Saints are Christian nationalists? And we’re really unpopular? Aieee!) Here are a trio of links concerning the pair of polls, two of which suggest that there’s more to the stories — or, perhaps better, less to the stories... Read more

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2023-03-03T22:21:33-07:00

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Mourning and Meekness

Last updated on: March 3, 2023 at 10:21 pm By Dan Peterson

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Herewith, I post another brief set of preliminary notes for (this time) a couple of chapters in my projected book on the Beatitudes. The first two entries in this littler series are “Introducing a Blog Focus for the Sabbath” and ““Blessed are the poor in spirit.”” So here, for whatever it’s worth, is my third installment: In the King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 5:4 reads as follows: “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall... Read more

2023-02-12T12:32:42-07:00

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“Local” Planetary Conditions

Last updated on: February 12, 2023 at 12:32 pm By Dan Peterson

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I carry on now with my appropriation, for my own undoubtedly wicked purposes, of material drawn largely (though not quite entirely) from the online “List of Fine-Tuning Parameters” compiled by Jay W. Richards. (My first entry taken from his list, and explicitly dependent upon it, was this one: “An initial survey of the “four fundamental forces” and the “cosmological constant.””). My second was ““Initial Conditions and ‘Brute Facts.’”) As I said in both of those blog posts, I... Read more

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2023-02-11T17:44:40-07:00

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Two Very Distinct Prophets

Last updated on: February 11, 2023 at 5:44 pm By Dan Peterson

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Happy weekend! Two new articles appeared today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ““According to the Spirit of Revelation and Prophecy”: Alma2’s Prophetic Warning of Christ’s Coming to the Lehites (and Others),” written by Matthew Scott Stenson Abstract: Some students of the Book of Mormon have felt that while the coming of the Lord to the Lehites was clearly revealed to and taught by Nephi1, those prophecies having to do with the subject may not have... Read more

Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith

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2023-02-11T17:49:27-07:00

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Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: How to Help

Last updated on: February 11, 2023 at 5:49 pm By Dan Peterson

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I already suggested here yesterday that Latter-day Saints should consider contributing to the humanitarian arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They should do so in order to replenish (for the inevitable next disaster or crisis) the resources that, I trust, are already making their way to the Turkish victims, and perhaps also to the Syrian victims, of the recent Near Eastern earthquakes : “Humanitarian Programs: Church humanitarian work primarily helps those in need who... Read more

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2023-02-11T20:24:59-07:00

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Into and out of Honolulu

Last updated on: February 11, 2023 at 8:24 pm By Dan Peterson

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First, though, I offer links to three items that were recently posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conference Talks: “What Did Joseph Smith Know about Temple Ordinances by 1836?” This talk was given by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw on Saturday, 25 October 2014, during the Interpreter Foundation’s 2014 Temple on Mount Zion Conference The New Testament in Context: Lesson 8: “Blessed Are Ye,” Matthew 5 and Luke 6 In the 22 January 2023 Come, Follow Me... Read more

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2023-02-11T16:52:12-07:00

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“Aloha ‘Oe”

Last updated on: February 11, 2023 at 4:52 pm By Dan Peterson

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We really enjoyed attending sacrament meeting on both of our Sundays here. We met with a Tongan ward in Lahaina, on Maui. This past Sunday, we joined with the Kona 1st Ward, which meets directly adjacent to the Kona Hawaii Temple. One of the negatives in the Latter-day Saint reputation, at least in the United States, is that we’re white racists. And here in Hawaii, whenever I’ve gone swimming, I’ve been acutely aware that I am, indeed, very,... Read more

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2023-02-07T01:50:00-07:00

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Pu’ukoholā Heiau

Last updated on: February 7, 2023 at 1:50 am By Dan Peterson

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We briefly visited the Pu’ukoholā Heiau this afternoon. (The word heiau is typically translated as “temple.”) My wife and I paid it a longer visit several years ago, when we fairly systematically visited several heiaus. An excellent film at the visitor center, new since we were last here, explains very clearly the events surrounding the construction of the sanctuary during parts of 1790 and 1791 by King Kamehameha I (“the Great”) — who sometimes labored with... Read more

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2023-02-07T01:18:46-07:00

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“Blessed are the poor in spirit”

Last updated on: February 7, 2023 at 1:18 am By Dan Peterson

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Herewith, a brief set of preliminary notes toward a chapter in my projected book on the Beatitudes: “Blessed are the poor in spirit,” reads the first of the Beatitudes (in Matthew 5:3 of the King James Version), “for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” By the way, please note that the phrase “for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” also occurs at Matthew 5:10, which, by the traditional reckoning (with which I agree), is the last of... Read more

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