[…] as theology. I also briefly explain why one way to describe what the Seminar does is “performative theology.” Today most Latter-day Saints who read scripture, for whatever reason, do so using implicit assumptions about what […]
[…] of God. . . .” By any definition it is a sin to ignore the realities of today, especially when those realities threaten the survival of the race. There is some evidence that the […]
[…] of civil disobedience in at least some instances, few attempt to justify this second sort of law- breaking. In his recent and notable “Broadside” on civil disobedience Justice Abe Fortas states that in a […]
[…] merely, but by using them to actually change things for the better. They are active principles for breaking up the world. The New Testament, like the Old, is a manual for revolution. The conventional […]
[…] of newspapers, I plunged into a fascinating life. The printing of our school paper at the Deseret News plant brought me into contact with some of the executives of that journal. Near the end […]
[…] on this same occasion I gave the opening prayer in which I said: “We have met here today clothed in the black robes of a false priesthood … ” Many have asked me since […]
[…] warheads, the Soviet Union, 7,742. On each side these warheads are deployed on land, sea, and air: USA 10,173 Warheads USSR 7,742 Warheads Sea 50% Land 73% Land 22% Sea 22% Air 28% Air […]
[…] arms race as part of a search for viable public myths, we are on the way to breaking out of the trap of pseudomyths held as literal facts. We take a step back from […]
[…] Elder Petersen, who wrote the foreword, sniped away at science from time to time through his Church News editorials for the remainder of his life. He particularly objected to efforts to understand the origins […]
[…] in 1826 for being a “disorderly person and a juggler” (under a statute similar to vagrancy statutes today which particularly included a prohibition against treasure-digging seership) Joseph and his father, Joseph Sr., lamented that […]