TomPittman.Blog Rage against the machine – but no actionable plan As machines evolve, how will humans?
DanPeterson.Blog An ancient idiom in 2 Nephi 4:33, as well as a demonic attack in Lancashire Wrote Heber Kimball, "I then sat on the bed and could distinctly see the evil spirits, who foamed and gnashed their teeth upon us. We gazed upon them about an hour and a half".
TomPittman.Blog The Wisdom Bearers The Tlingit word for elder, "at wuskóowu", is also the Tlingit word for "wisdom bearer". When people embrace healthy attitudes about aging and the elderly, the entire society benefits.
DanPeterson.Blog "What You Didn’t Hear About the LGBT Pamphlet at BYU" This article, written by the forthright and courageous Cassandra Hedelius, is both extremely important and extremely concerning.
DanPeterson.Blog Into Thin Air? Full-throated denunciations of the Church over recent incidents have been obviously eager. As more details come to light, will critics adjust their views to align with facts?
DanPeterson.Blog Controversies Past and Present In my years of experience at BYU — which represent most of my adult life, as either student or faculty member — I did not find racism endemic or even very common. (As a matter of fact, although I assume that it existed, I never saw it at all.).
DanPeterson.Blog Thinking, from Dover back to Amsterdam It worries me is that a large number of Americans, many of them members of the social, economic, and political elite, no longer seem to recognize much if any value in the freedom of religion
DanPeterson.Blog Canterbury Tales "Such as thou art, sometime was I. Such as I am, such shalt thou be."
DanPeterson.Blog “Why the ‘Witnesses’ Project?” "In order to understand what happened next, you should know about me that I absolutely loathe being called up onto the stage during shows and things of the sort. "
MikeChristensen.Blog The Perfect Marshmallow The dents, the imperfections, and even the flame engulfed burnt to a crisp roasted marshmallows, still taste just as good.
DanPeterson.Blog Sacred and Anti-Sacred Sites "That is a place where some of the old prophets travelled and dedicated that land, and their blessing fell upon you," explained the Prophet, Joseph Smith.
DanPeterson.Blog County Cork, and Something That, Sadly, Didn’t Bob Like One The sinking of the Lusitania was a powerful factor in turning U.S. public opinion against Germany. Coincidentally, my father went to Europe to serve in World War II on its sister shpp, the RMS Aquitania.