November 14, 2008

Today we had calls on the will, Bible translations, and Lutheranism. Much calmer than the last program.

Joseph Fielding McConkie is the son of one of the most outspoken Mormon apostles of the twentieth century, Bruce R. McConkie. In 1985 he wrote a book with Robert Millet (same LDS scholar who wrote the Eerdman’s publication we have spoken of in the past) called Sustaining and Defending the Faith. The book remains in print. He is a professor

We started half an hour early yesterday on the DL so that I could play the majority of the comments made by J. Ligon Duncan in defense of his signing of the MD. We also read through some material by Dr. Nielsen who likewise signed. Hopefully we found a solid ground upon which to speak to the issue without losing

Spent the first forty minutes considering corporate election, Ephesians 1, and a recent sermon by Malcolm Yarnell, and then moved back to our review of Bart Ehrman’s comments in the recent debate on the deity of Christ.  We won’t be doing any more DLs this week—have a blessed Thanksgiving time with your families and friends.  We will be back next