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2025-02-16T22:45:35-07:00

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“Earth’s crammed with heaven”

Last updated on: February 16, 2025 at 10:45 pm By Dan Peterson

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It’s a cold and dreary day today in central Utah, but, for some reason, I’ve been thinking about what many religious believers take to be God’s self-disclosure in the beauties of nature. So, of course, two favorite poems from Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) come to mind. The first is “God’s Grandeur”: The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil... Read more

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2025-02-15T16:30:23-07:00

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Just a little more than two years to go!

Last updated on: February 15, 2025 at 4:30 pm By Dan Peterson

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You’re probably aware of this: “The Prophet Announces Salt Lake Temple Open House Celebration Dates: This landmark house of the Lord will reopen for tours from April 2027 to October 2027” Wonderful news. The open house is still more than two years away, of course, and the rededication will follow it. But it’s nice to have a definite date, to see light at the end of the tunnel. More than a few people — myself among them — are hoping... Read more

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2025-02-14T21:59:11-07:00

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Should Good Friday be a legal holiday in Utah?

Last updated on: February 14, 2025 at 9:59 pm By Dan Peterson

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“Utah may join 12 states that recognize Good Friday as a legal holiday: ‘In my personal opinion, the more we reflect on the love of Jesus, the better people we are. Regardless of what the state does, it’s a sacred day for us,’ Father Stephen Tilley said” I’m not absolutely committed to the idea of making Good Friday a legal holiday, but I’m certainly not opposed to it. And making a three-day holiday of Easter weekend seems to me not... Read more

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2025-02-13T21:18:52-07:00

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Bidding Adieu to My Native State

Last updated on: February 13, 2025 at 9:18 pm By Dan Peterson

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Important: The form on the Witnesses Initiative website was inadvertently created in such a way that it prevented people who live outside of the United States from accessing Witnesses and Undaunted. (They are currently available there for free streaming.) I’ve received inquiries from Australia and Switzerland seeking such access, and I think that we’ve now fixed the problem. But I’m in the United States and can’t quite verify that on my own. Can anybody from Canada report whether the... Read more

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2025-02-12T16:29:20-07:00

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Hell’s Bells

Last updated on: February 12, 2025 at 4:29 pm By Dan Peterson

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Controversy about the proposed McKinney Texas Temple (actually to be located in adjacent Fairview, north northeast of Dallas), appears to be bubbling up again, and critics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are, once again, accusing the Church of trying to bully and intimidate a humbly idyllic little community into rolling over and playing dead while the Mormons callously impose an enormous, triumphalist temple on innocent rural people. (For aerial views of the neighborhood immediately surrounding... Read more

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2025-02-11T18:10:06-07:00

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Believe!

Last updated on: February 11, 2025 at 6:10 pm By Dan Peterson

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There’s a new book to which I’m looking forward. Here are a couple of articles about it: Mariya Manzhos, Deseret News: “Why everyone should be religious, according to Ross Douthat: In his new book, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat offers a roadmap for thinking your way into religious belief” ““Believe,” which is Douthat’s eighth nonfiction book, offers a roadmap for navigating the stumbling blocks along the way to belief. “The universe is not a trick” is a recurring... Read more

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2025-02-10T22:26:39-07:00

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Finding a Lost Harp

Last updated on: February 10, 2025 at 10:26 pm By Dan Peterson

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Several years ago, as I’ve mentioned here before, I read (and was very impressed by) Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind (2008). Here’s how the blurb on Amazon.com describes the book: In 1991, when her daughter’s rare, hand-carved harp was stolen, Lisby Mayer’s familiar world of science and rational thinking turned upside down. After the police failed to turn up any leads, a friend suggested she call a dowser—a man... Read more

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2025-02-09T23:16:08-07:00

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Divine Light (with an aside concerning Hollywood darkness)

Last updated on: February 9, 2025 at 11:16 pm By Dan Peterson

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Are you aware that you can watch Witnesses and Undaunted, right now, at no charge? Do you realize that you could do that tonight? In fact, tonight would be a really good night to watch one or both of them. Maybe an especially good night, if your team loses the Super Bowl. Or, alternatively, if your team wins the Super Bowl. After all, you’ve already got the chips and dips and salsa and root beer. At one point, in... Read more

2025-02-08T15:28:14-07:00

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“Brigham Young and violence”

Last updated on: February 8, 2025 at 3:28 pm By Dan Peterson

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Some critics that I observe — most of them specimens of the type of detractor who finds fault, day in and day out, with virtually everything that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does — have derived a great deal of hostile mirth from President Russell M. Nelson’s admonition that we try to retire terms like Mormon and Mormonism from active use, or, at least, that we try not to sponsor them ourselves. And they’ve really enjoyed... Read more

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2025-02-07T16:11:59-07:00

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Federal Funding for Critics of the Church? Really???

Last updated on: February 7, 2025 at 4:11 pm By Dan Peterson

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Newly posted on the never-changing, essentially moribund website of the Interpreter Foundation, in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Prepping for the Last Battle,” written by one Daniel C. Peterson: Abstract: Intellectually acute, deeply learned, brilliantly imaginative, yet popular and easily accessible, C. S. Lewis was arguably the greatest Christian apologist of at least the past century. I believe that Latter-day Saints can benefit greatly from reading him and re-reading him and that those who are... Read more

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