[…] the Book of Mormon’s truth claims, its approach is nonviolent, presenting evidence and letting the evidence speak for itself—a technique that ultimately gets us no nearer the truth than the most exquisite theological argumentation, […]
[…] I said was strictly true. A dirty, nasty, filthy affair of his and Fanny Alger’s was talked over in which I strictly declared that I never deviated from the truth” (38). There is strong […]
[…] contemptible, like lying to hurt a friend or to win a contest or to get victims to buy into a fake real estate scheme. At the extremes, we have little trouble judging: if I […]
[…] albeit a hideous one, yet one in which Job’s ultimate survival is not at stake (1:12; 2: 6). If it seems as though we are eavesdropping on a cosmic experiment where the scientists are […]
[…] by the English Department where eager fans bought the book in triplicate to give away at Christmas. For days afterward, students and faculty at WSU talked about how amazing, riveting and, above all, daring […]
[…] monism were interesting and comforting, but as a doctrine, as a belief system, I just never could buy it” (85). For these folks, living the LDS lifestyle was not the core issue. Even among […]
[…] tracts just as word came that the United States had gone to war with Spain. On April 6, 1898, he noted in his diary, “McKinley’s message will mean war ,” and added, “I believe […]
[…] down the hole and get it over with. They’d joked about being old men and having to buy a power auger. Ed drilled a hole six inches into the ice and left the auger […]
[…] The rush of a robbery was cheaper than wine, and with the money he stole he could buy cigarettes and alcohol anyway. I imagine him breaking those fine things he couldn’t sell and spitting […]
[…] let us consider Nibley’s discussion of the writings of the prophet Enoch. Latter-day Saints have in Moses 6:25-8:3 what are properly termed “Extracts from the Prophecy of Enoch” or what Nibley has referred to […]