Dan Peterson

For whatever it’s worth, I dislike the contention advanced by Rosa Prince in the CNN opinion about Boris Johnson.

Contrary to the claims of the Peterson Obsession Board, I do not make big bucks blogging.

Funerals of good people are very often inspiring. Be still, my soul: When change and tears are past, all safe and blessed we shall meet at last.

My father sometimes liked to play a little trick on people. And it was amazing to me how many of them — adults, as well as children — often fell for it.

On his Facebook page, the inimitable Jim Bennett posted a nice short

Latter-day Saint temples are monuments to our belief in the immortality and the eternal worth of each individual human soul. They are, truly, revolutionary.

At first, he talked a great deal about getting his sight back.

In 1845, former member of the Church James Strang claimed to have found ancient metal plates. What were the Voree Plates?

Significant moderation analyses suggest that a stronger relationship with God predicted fewer depression and anxiety symptoms for youth whose mothers used more religious coping.

There has never been a society in human history in which nobody has exercised authority over anybody else. Moreover, pending the Millennium and the Second Coming, if even then, there will never be such a society.

Let the debate proceed. But, please, let it be without demonizing opponents and, as much as possible, without acrimony and hatred.

Just before Hugh Nibley's lecture, a fire marshal told me it was illegal to have people sitting in the aisles, and that I would need to tell them to leave. Which I did. Making me perhaps not quite the most beloved person in the room that evening.