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2026-09-07T22:41:00-06:00

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When and why coffee matters

Last updated on: September 7, 2026 at 10:41 pm By Dan Peterson

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We drove back home today from Moab. Along the way, we stopped off in Hanksville for old time’s sake, pausing to grab a bite at Stan’s Burger Shak. (Yes, Obsession Boarders, I ate food yet again today, publicly and shamelessly and surrounded by a number of others who obviously share my addiction to daily eating.) We often stopped at Stan’s during the many years that my father-in-law maintained a houseboat at Bullfrog Marina on Lake Powell, to which the... Read more

2026-09-07T11:31:08-06:00

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Moab: “What’s in a Name?”

Last updated on: September 7, 2026 at 11:31 am By Dan Peterson

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I’m scheduled to record a discussion of the Old Testament books of Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah on Wednesday for future use by Hank Smith and John Bytheway on their followHim podcast. I like to make it a practice to read scriptural passages before pontificating on them, and I was doing some of that earlier today. Here is how Zephaniah 2:8-11 reads in the King James Version: 8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the... Read more

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2026-09-05T11:50:06-06:00

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Actual Data and Actual Crusades

Last updated on: September 5, 2026 at 11:50 am By Dan Peterson

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Several years ago, I read John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed, Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think (New York: Gallup Press, 2007). Sadly, Professor Esposito passed away in July from cancer; it’s a serious loss. I’ve previously shared here some of the passages that I marked during my reading of Who Speaks for Islam? and, in view of recent, umm, discussions that I’ve seen regarding Islam and Muslims, I think that I’ll share some of... Read more

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Who Speaks for Islam?

2026-09-04T22:53:26-06:00

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On the Origin of Life on Earth, and Something of Its History

Last updated on: September 4, 2026 at 10:53 pm By Dan Peterson

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An editor’s introduction appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 69 (2026) : vii-xvi, under the title of “Glaciers, Plant Succession, and the Sheer Wonder of It All” and written by one Daniel C. Peterson: Abstract: According to current scientific understanding, our universe began in an inconceivable explosion of both space and time. And yet the laws that govern it took immediate effect, eventually governing the formation of galaxies and stars, the orbits of... Read more

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2026-09-04T21:05:07-06:00

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From a small, specialized Interpreter Foundation gathering

Last updated on: September 4, 2026 at 9:05 pm By Dan Peterson

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My wife and I are up in Salt Lake City for the second biannual Interpreter Journal Development Conference. In attendance are most of those who prepare new article submissions for publication in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship every Friday, week in and week out. The participants included our managing editor, three executive editors, two source checkers, three copy editors, Kyler Rasmussen (who creates our Interpreting Interpreter materials), our typesetter, and our webmaster, as well as... Read more

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2026-09-02T23:55:07-06:00

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Three False Claims

Last updated on: September 2, 2026 at 11:55 pm By Dan Peterson

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This article went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, where, as prophesied long ago, nothing ever changes and nothing ever goes up: Reprint: “‘We Believe the Bible to Be the Word of God, as Far as It is Translated Correctly’: Latter-day Saints and Historical Biblical Criticism,” written by David R. Seely Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses — Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts,... Read more

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2026-09-02T11:22:38-06:00

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“A Portion of God’s Light”

Last updated on: September 2, 2026 at 11:22 am By Dan Peterson

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I’ve discovered an ideal form of clickbait: Simply post something about shari‘a or Islamist violence that’s based on historical facts or accurate survey data and hordes of infuriated anti-Muslims will descend upon you, particularly on Facebook. They’ll sneer at your ivory-tower academic career and your head-in-the-sand book-lernin’, abuse you personally, mock your lack of real-world experience with Muslims and in the Middle East, and — this one, I admit, is particularly delicious to me as a life-long and very... Read more

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2026-08-31T23:31:06-06:00

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“What is sharia?”

Last updated on: August 31, 2026 at 11:31 pm By Dan Peterson

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Newly up this morning on the Meridian Magazine website, more of my habitual lies, dripping with my perpetually incandescent rage: “Religious Kindred, but Savage Enemies? – Becoming Brigham, Episode 32″ I enjoyed this new article in Meridian Magazine, and perhaps you will, too: “They Know Where Their Records Are: Family History Miracles from Meridian Readers” One of the angles of attack chosen by some critics of Christianity is to argue that the sources for the life of Jesus are... Read more

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2026-08-30T19:27:42-06:00

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“Continents waiting to be explored”

Last updated on: August 30, 2026 at 7:27 pm By Dan Peterson

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Blake Ostler, one of the most interesting Latter-day Saint voices alive, has a newly redesigned website, and I heartily commend it to your attention: Blake T. Ostler And, speaking of interesting Latter-day Saint writers, here is the jacket endorsement that I wrote for Nathan B. Oman, Welding Another Link: Latter-day Saint Essays on Faith and Intellect (Greg Kofford Books, 2026): Nate Oman is one of the best writers and most interesting thinkers in the Church. He’s thoughtful, widely read,... Read more

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2026-08-29T20:42:57-06:00

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Some thoughts on Islam and terrorist violence

Last updated on: August 29, 2026 at 8:42 pm By Dan Peterson

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Charles Kurzman, who is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has carved out an important scholarly niche for himself. His published anthologies Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook (Oxford, 1998) and Modernist Islam (1840-1940): A Sourcebook (Oxford, 2002), for example, represent fundamental resources on the little-known (and often studiously ignored) tradition in modern Muslim thought advocating democracy and tolerance. On Kurzman’s website at kurzman.unc.edu, he has compiled “Islamic Statements Against Terrorism,” which is a... Read more

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