Monthly Archives: November 2007
Updates to this site (need to reregister)
Up until now, this blog has operated as a subdirectory on another one of my domains (brucefwebster.com). However, I recently upgraded to a dedicated server for all my websites, so I have converted this blog to its own separate web … Continue reading
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If you left a comment in the last few days…
…you might have to leave it again. My comment spam problem went from annoying to overwhelming over the past week (700+ spam comments in just the past few days), and I simply deleted all pending comments, then installed a new … Continue reading
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It’s Thanksgiving Day…
…why are you reading blogs? In the meantime, there’s snow on the ground, and we have grandchildren coming to Grandma’s house for Thanksgiving dinner (no river or woods involved, though). I’m doing most of the dinner, and it’s probably my … Continue reading
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What the Book of Mormon actually says (part II)
Ran across the following quote from 1952 and thought it relevant to the flap over the change to the (non-canonical) introduction printed with the Book of Mormon starting in 1981: “The first rule of historical criticism in dealing with the … Continue reading
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Veterans Day
I’m not a veteran, though my good friend (and co-blogger over at And Still I Persist) Bruce Henderson is. But my mother (the genealogist) sent me a list of veterans in our family. Here’s the list (with a few additions … Continue reading
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The “Mormon J. K. Rowling”
I’ve been hearing rumblings about Stephanie Meyer for some months and saw her books (in several places) the last time I went into Borders. But I had no idea that she’s reaching this level of sales and fan worship: Stephenie … Continue reading
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What the Book of Mormon actually says
[UPDATED 11/15/07 - 1958 MST] I have added some quotes by Hugh Nibley from 1952, showing that the idea of other people outside of the Book of Mormon inhabiting the Americans is neither new nor unique. ==================================== There’s a bit … Continue reading
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The Flood revisited
A while back, I wrote a post on rethinking the Noachian flood from an LDS perspective, with a link to a recent article by two LDS scientists raising issues with the classic Flood story. Here’s a pithier commentary: Heh. And … Continue reading
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