Dan Peterson

Because of illness, my wife and I and one of our sons were unable to participate in the funeral of my brother’s widow this morning in San Gabriel, California. That saddens me greatly.

Joseph Smith said, "The same principle which would trample upon the rights of the Latter day Saints would trample upon the rights of ... any other denomination who may be unpopular and too weak to defend themselves."

Perhaps this is why our courtrooms often look like temples, and our judges often wear clerical or priestly robes.

Here’s a really important scientific discovery — and, I think, persuasive evidence that the cultural practices of American Latter-day Saints are true: “Ice cream might have surprising health benefits, Harvard research suggests: The frozen treat might be good for your heart”

There is a curious speculation that Earth was originally created elsewhere and that its “fall” was a literal one, involving an actual change in location.

Did Emer Harris, the older brother of Martin Harris, have a positive attitude about the Book of Mormon? Well, he named his son "Joseph Mormon Harris".

In our effort to understand Matthew 5:48, we should certainly not ignore the verse’s context.

I am not arguing that unbelievers cannot do good or be good people. I know for a fact that non-believers can be moral and good. If there's no God, then what we call morality evolves to facilitate socieities.

Sometimes the always-urgent search for angles of attack against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints runs into obstacles.

I share now a bunch of links, in simple chronological order, that I’ve been accumulating for a while.

The first draft of the script for the coming feature film Six Days in August is complete and being carefully evaluated.

We will shout, we will sing o’er and o’er,As we greet with a kiss,And with joy we caressAll our loved ones that passed on before;