[…] Soul which led me to Search the Scriptures believing as I was taught, that they contained the word of God thus applying myself to them and my intimate acquaintance with those of different denominations […]
[…] an apostle, not so much suggested certain definitions of Mormon terms, as insisted on them. Indeed, if word gets out that testimony can refer simply to the meaning that God’s light gives life to […]
[…] can be found online at www.meridianmagazine.com. [8] Howard W. Hunter, “President’s Formal Charge of Responsibility,” LDS Church News, 26 Nov. 1994. [9] I am grateful to Dr. Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi of the University of Haifa, […]
[…] (William Gass, John Barth, Alice Munro) and whose work I greatly admire, whose work is the good news, if only people would read it. Douglas: Earning a doctorate seems to damage some fiction writers, […]
Many who revere the scriptures as the inspired 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, […]
My involvement in biblical studies has also awakened in me an interest in other holy books. In the 1970s, I had the opportunity to do some work on the Qur’an, a fascinating combination of […]
On March 10, 1844, Mormon founder Joseph Smith preached a sermon after the burial of his friend King Follett, killed by accidental rock-fall while building a well. To an assembled crowd of his followers, […]
Hong Kong, Dan Rather declared as he began his television coverage of the 1997 “handover” from British to Chinese sovereignty, “is Asia for beginners.” That is what it was for me, although it has […]
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At a session of general conference in 1949, Elder John A. Widtsoe shared an interesting message with the assembled Saints—a message that contained, so far as I have been able to discover, the strongest […]