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2025-09-20T23:31:24-06:00

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Herman’s Hermits and the Screwtape Letters

Last updated on: September 20, 2025 at 11:31 pm By Dan Peterson

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It’s late tonight, so I think that I’ll share three passages that I marked during my reading, some time ago, of Richard Lyman Bushman’s book Joseph Smith’s Gold Plates: A Cultural History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023): John’s mother, Mary Whitmer, another plain-spoken witness, said she saw the plates when she went to do the milking. In 1878, years after the event, her son said that his mother had grown weary with the work of housing and feeding... Read more

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2025-09-19T13:54:26-06:00

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Calling All Experts!

Last updated on: September 19, 2025 at 1:54 pm By Dan Peterson

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This timely new book review was published today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, where nothing new is ever published: “Learning Political Civility from Pahoran to Lincoln,” written by Brian Warby: Review of Rodney Dieser, Cease to Contend: Healing a Nation Through Christlike Civility in Politics (Springville, UT: Cedar Fort, 2025). 136 pp., $16.99 (paperback). Abstract: In Cease to Contend: Healing a Nation Through Christlike Civility in Politics, Rodney Dieser offers a timely and faith-centered response to the growing... Read more

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2025-09-18T17:39:21-06:00

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Utah: “The Bluest of the Red States”?

Last updated on: September 18, 2025 at 5:39 pm By Dan Peterson

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I’ve indicated here more than once that I try to make my blog practically useful to its readers by offering occasional comments on such things as movies, plays, pieces of music, restaurants, and travel destinations. Here, for example, is a short but important video about an airport that should definitely be avoided: “Kafka International Named World’s Worst Airport” The place seems almost Kafkaesque, doesn’t it? To put it mildly, I’m not a fan of Steve Bannon, who was Donald... Read more

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2025-09-17T13:43:34-06:00

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Please remember the Constitution and the Bill of Rights!

Last updated on: September 17, 2025 at 1:43 pm By Dan Peterson

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Earlier this year, I participated in a conference on religious freedom and related subjects in Uzbekistan. One of the others who attended and presented there was Shima Baradaran Baughman, who was born in Iran and who is now Woodruff J. Deem Professor of Law at Brigham Young University. I’ve been impressed by an essay that she recently published in the Deseret News, not least because of the somewhat dramatic personal family story that she tells in it: “Perspective: The... Read more

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2025-09-16T15:27:43-06:00

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“Everyone is Lying to You” (Except Me, of Course)

Last updated on: September 16, 2025 at 3:27 pm By Dan Peterson

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My attention has been called to a Latter-day Saint blog — located, like mine, here on Patheos — that is entitled Ye Shall Prosper in the Land. The entry that I first read on it was this one: “Who Is Behind the Murder of Charlie Kirk and What Happened?” It turns out that former Senator Mitt Romney, Senators John Curtis and Mike Lee, and especially Governor Spencer Cox may well be involved in Charlie Kirk’s assassination; that the attempted... Read more

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2025-09-15T16:13:48-06:00

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“Stand Ye in Holy Places”

Last updated on: September 15, 2025 at 4:13 pm By Dan Peterson

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The still relatively new Orem Utah Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stands across the I-15 freeway, a short distance to the southwest of the campus of Utah Valley University (UVU). That campus, of course, is where Charlie Kirk was assassinated last week. The temple is a bit of a walk from UVU, but it’s plainly visible from much of the university and there is a pedestrian walkway over the freeway that makes it reasonably... Read more

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2025-09-14T16:24:34-06:00

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Some notes on the resurrection of Jesus

Last updated on: September 14, 2025 at 4:24 pm By Dan Peterson

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A new interview went up today that I commend to the notice of anybody who might have an interest in the Prophet Joseph Smith: “Rough Stone Rolling: Richard Bushman Reflects 20 Years Later: Joseph Smith still eludes me.” It being Sunday, the day on which, according to the New Testament accounts, Jesus rose from the dead, I think it appropriate to share some notes that I’ve amassed on that subject: “Essentially all critical scholars today agree that in 1... Read more

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2025-09-13T21:32:46-06:00

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Maybe I believe it but think I DON’T believe it?

Last updated on: September 13, 2025 at 9:32 pm By Dan Peterson

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Driving back from the coast to drop our friends off at the airport in Portland, we stopped by the Portland Oregon Temple and walked around its grounds. We didn’t have enough time, alas, to do a session there — though we’ve attended sessions in it once or twice before. I’ve always liked its striking architecture and the beautiful marble with which it’s clad. And, of course, its grounds are gorgeous. Yesterday, its many and varied flowers were exceptionally pretty.... Read more

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2025-09-13T18:57:43-06:00

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She couldn’t have done it. Impossible. But she did it.

Last updated on: September 13, 2025 at 6:57 pm By Dan Peterson

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Having been on the road much of the day and having spoken at a fireside this evening, I’m a bit late with this notification. However, today being Friday, a new article went up this afternoon in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Possible Remembrance and Re-enactment of Old World’s Hieros Gamos in the Book of Ether,” written by Michaël Ulrich: Abstract: This paper explores the conclusions that can be drawn from a Mesopotamian origin theory for... Read more

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2025-09-11T20:03:30-06:00

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Two Anniversaries and a Final Warning

Last updated on: September 11, 2025 at 8:03 pm By Dan Peterson

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This is my final warning: Decent people who may be in or near the Pacific Northwest on the evening of Friday, 12 September 2025, should maintain a safe distance from the chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that stands at 4195 Southwest 99th Avenue in Beaverton, Oregon, on that evening between approximately 7:00 PM and 8:30 PM. In fact, it might be prudent to avoid Oregon’s Washington County altogether — from late afternoon, perhaps, until... Read more

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