Dan Peterson

We live in a pretty good world, on the whole — but some religiously affiliated people are among those trying their very best to ruin it.

Several people have asked me about the AP story suggesting a coverup of sexual abuse, but I have no special insight into the case and no specific knowledge of it beyond what I've read. But here are two helpful links.

The 2022 FAIR Conference is now over. I think it was a strong one.

The (free) 2022 Temple on Mount Zion Conference is coming up on 5 November 2022. And the new book by Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw, Freemasonry and the Origins of Latter-day Saint Temple Ordinances, is now available.

Vin Scully was a surprisingly important part of my growing up in greater Los Angeles, over many years. I honestly can’t remember when I first became aware of him; he was a fixture from the time I was a child

Between the excellent FAIR 2022 conference, and an evening with three generations of a remarkable family I've known since 1978, this was a day filled with good people.

As I write, I’ve been listening to music by The Byrds, who were one of my very favorite rock bands as I was growing up in 1960s California.

When the great seventeenth-century French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal died at the age of just thirty-nine in 1662, his servant found a small piece of parchment that had been sewn into his coat.

“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something,” quipped the famous American writer and “muckraker” Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), “when his salary depends on not understanding it.”

Hugh B. Brown wrote, "We should be in the forefront of learning in all fields, for revelation does not come only through the prophet of God nor only directly from heaven in visions or dreams."

Latter-day Saints are scripturally obligated, in my judgment, to support the gathering of Israel. But we are not obligated to support any particular policy of the United States toward Israel, let alone any particular policy of Israel itself.

Hingson argues that the connection between temples and physical bodies is more than just metaphor, with bodies able to be literally classified as temples according to various scholarly criteria.