[…] argument. Notably, author Orson Scott Card—appointed in early 2009 to the political group National Organization for Marriage[ 6]—wrote in June 2008 for the Mormon Times section of the Deseret News and published on the […]
Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI’s third encyclical letter, is a striking beginning for his papal contribution to Catholic social teaching. In a sense, the encyclical confirms one piece of conventional wisdom about his […]
[…] apologetic career in the mid-1930s, Lewis received letters from Catholics, Evangelicals, Presbyterians, and other Christians thanking him for his inspiring words. Fans from various Christian traditions who felt a certain kinship with Lewis often […]
[…] Mormonism and the Cultural Theory of René Girard,” 43, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 59–105. I offer a counter-interpretation of what I take to be (1) the thrust of Girard’s own work on scripture and […]
[…] up. We agree to meet in an hour, when he will bring us $425 in cash. We buy cold sodas at a convenience store to combat the heat, and an hour later we add […]
[…] up and saw a large crowd coming towards him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?” He said this to test him, for he himself knew […]
Prince: I want to start with what I thought was an amazing quote from Richard Nixon, where he says, “I can take some satisfaction from the fact that this was probably the last national […]
[…] by Church members themselves, it was read and voted upon at a session of general conference, October 6, 1890. This was a significant step because members were now not only advised to obey the […]
[…] as much a part of the religion of American Latter-day Saints,” the LDS Church News asserted, “ to accept the Constitution of the United States, and defend it, as it is to believe in […]
[…] Nauvoo, and if they were not going to default on their loans, they needed Church members to buy that land. So Hyrum Smith issued a “thus saith the Lord” statement in which he commanded […]