[…] her adult life with her husband, Henry Stark, a research chemist. Adoptive parents of three, they nurtured the Delaware Branch from its ecclesiastical preexistence until it became the Delaware Stake in 1974, only five […]
[…] from the particular matrix of RLDS symbols, stories, and events; the wider Christian community; and the modern world. Undergirding such theologies will be the conviction that God is at work in and through all […]
[…] nationalities and races—the Depression-born Works Progress Administration (WPA) would count twenty-eight in my town. This was a world of anxiety for a child of immigrant parents. Stepping out of the home each day meant […]
[…] the English language and law, in describing the paradigmatic shift from early feudal European society to a world of secular, territorial nation-states and market economy, observed that we had moved “from status to contract.” […]
The doctrine of divine providence states that God is the supreme governor of the world—past, present, and future. Different versions of the doctrine depend on different interpretations of governance. The strongest version of this […]
[…] acclamations of the Lord’s kingship such as Psalms 47, 93, 95-100 and for celebrations of the Lord’s world-establishing victory such as Psalms 29, 46, 48, 76, 93, 95-99, and 104. Not all the psalms […]
[…] America—to use language I learned in church—a “city on a hill,” an example to the big wide world my extended family came from, or was it “Babylon,” worldwide marketer of wickedness, where wrong was […]
[…] knows of our loneliness and longing and sorrows over our broken hearts and weeps over our broken world, wouldn’t she (doesn’t she?) at least equally do the same? If faith and reason tell us […]
[…] article will explain what trauma is and how to be trauma informed, describe a few examples from the Book of Mormon in which a sensitivity to trauma could reveal greater insights from the text, […]
[…] knows of our loneliness and longing and sorrows over our broken hearts and weeps over our broken world, wouldn’t she (doesn’t she?) at least equally do the same? If faith and reason tell us […]