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2025-09-09T21:24:55-06:00

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For his 101st, recalling a minor incident with Pres. Nelson

Last updated on: September 9, 2025 at 9:24 pm By Dan Peterson

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President Russell M. Nelson entered his 102nd year of mortality today. Remarkable. Here are a few links that seem appropriate to the occasion: “Church Releases Photo of President Nelson on the Eve of His 101st Birthday” “President Nelson’s Op-Ed in Time Magazine Hits the Right Note” “As President Nelson turns 101, here’s a look at how he’s brought temples ‘closer’ to Latter-day Saints: ‘Construction of these temples may not change your life, but your time in the temple surely... Read more

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2025-09-08T22:15:03-06:00

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Thoughts on happiness. And on lefse.

Last updated on: September 8, 2025 at 10:15 pm By Dan Peterson

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This particular item is probably also to be found — I haven’t looked for it there yet — in the legendary (but not merely mythical) Christopher Hitchens Memorial “How Religion Poisons Everything” File™: The Interpreter Foundation Podcast — August 21, 2025: Interpreter Articles and “Are Latter-day Saints Happier?” For the second 21 August 2025 episode of the Interpreter Foundation Podcast, Terry Hutchinson, John Gee, and John Thompson discussed various recent articles in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith... Read more

2025-09-08T11:10:44-06:00

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“While the enemy assaileth”

Last updated on: September 8, 2025 at 11:10 am By Dan Peterson

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We attended church this morning here in Seaside. We weren’t really late, but we ended up sitting toward the back of the cultural hall. One of those who bore testimony was a former longtime member of the ward who had returned for a visit. She marveled at the numbers; apparently the chapel has been considerably expanded since she and her family moved away. Another person who testified was a young husband and father, a recent convert who had, with... Read more

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2025-09-06T21:57:30-06:00

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Undaunted Courage

Last updated on: September 6, 2025 at 9:57 pm By Dan Peterson

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We headed to Fort Stevens State Park this morning, where we were able to look at what remains of the Peter Iredale, a four-masted steel ship that ran ashore in 1906 and is now (when the tide is low) one of the most accessible shipwrecks on the West Coast. It has been slowly decaying on the beach for more than a century. Then we clambered around some of the former gun emplacements there that were designed to defend the... Read more

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2025-09-05T17:07:20-06:00

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Voices for dignity, respect, truth, happiness, and Jesus

Last updated on: September 5, 2025 at 5:07 pm By Dan Peterson

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If all goes according to current expectation, he will celebrate his 101st birthday next week and, thereby, enter his 102nd year on earth. And he’s just published a short and simple article in Time Magazine: “Russell M. Nelson: We All Deserve Dignity and Respect.” Some, I have little doubt, will mock its simplicity. But that won’t detract from the power of what he has to say. I’m reminded of words that I’ve heard attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:... Read more

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2025-09-04T22:24:23-06:00

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Tempting Fate on the Oregon Coast?

Last updated on: September 4, 2025 at 10:24 pm By Dan Peterson

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With our friends, we headed up to Astoria this morning. It’s the oldest city in the state of Oregon and, in fact, having been founded in 1811, was the first permanent American settlement west of the Rocky Mountains. Astoria is located on the south shore of the mighty Columbia River, near where the Columbia confronts the Pacific Ocean — creating the most continually turbulent estuary in the United States (and, possibly, in the world). Astoria was named after John... Read more

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2025-09-03T22:49:21-06:00

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Hearing from Reeve and Rich themselves

Last updated on: September 3, 2025 at 10:49 pm By Dan Peterson

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We drove back from Depoe Bay over to the Portland Airport this morning to pick up friends of ours who had just flown in from Salt Lake City. Then we drove westward to Seaside, where we and our friends enjoyed dinner out with another pair of Utah friends who are also visiting here, both of them natives of Oregon. He earned his medical degree from the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine. He is also a past mission... Read more

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2025-09-02T15:07:50-06:00

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On the ineptitude of using Green Flake to criticize me

Last updated on: September 2, 2025 at 3:07 pm By Dan Peterson

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This went up yesterday on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “The Interpreter Foundation Podcast — August 21, 2025: Wresting the Scriptures.” For the 21 August 2025 episode of the Interpreter Foundation Podcast, Bruce Webster, Kris Frederickson, and Martin Tanner discussed the wresting of the scriptures by critics. I continue to draw ignorant (and, thus, poorly aimed) fire from certain quarters regarding the position that I took in a recent FAIR presentation and a recent Meridian Magazine article on... Read more

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2025-09-01T18:24:58-06:00

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Desire, Experience, and the Divine

Last updated on: September 1, 2025 at 6:24 pm By Dan Peterson

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This column of mine, which I originally published in the Deseret News for 4 July 2013, seems to me relevant also to our celebration of Labor Day, which is today: “A day for celebration and remembrance” Driving over to Depoe Bay from Portland, we passed very near McMinnville, and I couldn’t help thinking of the famous 1950 McMinnville UFO sighting. So, as we drove along, my wife read to me from “The History of the 1950 Trent UFO Sighting... Read more

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2025-08-31T21:36:55-06:00

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“With a fatherly care, and paternal regard”

Last updated on: August 31, 2025 at 9:36 pm By Dan Peterson

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During the April 1929 General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Elder Orson F. Whitney, an exceptionally talented writer and speaker and a senior member of the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, delivered an address that has been quoted frequently in recent decades by other leaders of the Church and by many other Latter-day Saints. It has given comfort to many, for obvious reasons. Consider, for example, the three following passages from his remarks: The... Read more

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