[…] word of God are nonetheless disturbed by them. The scriptures contain inconsistencies and outright contradictions. Particularly disturbing for many are scriptural portrayals of God as wrathful, vengeful, and violent. This article will introduce these […]
[…] need.” “Maybe we’ll create money,” Kim answered. “Money is the seedbed of inequality.” “But what could we buy or sell? And who would buy it?” “We start accumulating things we don’t need.” “Such as?” […]
[…] what do most people do? Most people take the thousand bucks and content themselves with it. They buy a month of steak dinners, a Louis Vuitton purse, a flat-screen TV. Tam starts to say […]
[…] I wash and diaper I change doesn’t turn into an apology for being male, where I can buy Melissa f lowers and rub her feet without feeling as if I’m buttering her up, where […]
As a missionary in France and Belgium, I frequently encountered devout Catholics who would describe their journeys to Lourdes or Fatima. “Ah, oui! J’ai vu la grotte, la grotte où la Vierge s’est apparue […]
[…] seen during any other time in its history.” He buttressed this claim with the fact that for over a year “media attention far exceeded even the considerable interest generated during the 2002 Winter Olympics in […]
[…] long ago deserted. (See his “Light in Darkness: Embracing the Opportunity of Climate Change,” Dialogue 43, no. 3 [Fall 2010]: 100–127). He does not explain why, after dis carding both organized religion and God, […]
We could say that Joseph Smith Junior went to the woods for the same reason Henry David Thoreau went: He wished to live deliberately. Or maybe we should say that Thoreau went for the […]
[…] and Pahrump, Nevada (“Solar-Powered Construction Design Gets ‘Green’ Light from Church Leaders,” http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom /eng/news-releases-stories/solar-powered-construction-design-gets green-light-from-church-leaders [accessed February 6, 2011]). But characteristically, the Church is rolling out its solar agenda in a quiet, measured way […]
With the Babylonian destruction of the First Temple in 587 BCE, it became necessary for the Jewish Fathers to create, as it were, a “synagogue in exile,” in which the emphasis shifted from the […]