[…] competent historians must and do expect criticism. They should welcome it, as it is essential to their search for the truth about what happened and why it happened. But competent criticism is one thing, […]
[…] was thin and flat as wallpaper. Parley was her brother. Sarah knew he had died in either World War I or World War II—she couldn’t remember which. “It’s okay, Gran,” Sarah said. “Go back […]
[…] Ancient Book,” is inconclusive (pp. 76-94). Griggs correctly observes that “the assumption that any parallels from the world of Joseph Smith, real or imagined, are sufficient to discredit the authenticity of the work is […]
A useful beginning for my comments may be found in a quotation from Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-intellectualism in American Life.
[…] redress? Do I contribute to unfortunate tensions with others in the family of Judeo-Christian religions and other world religions by not expressing my own very positive view of ecumenical cooperation? Do we all passively […]
[…] treated to an analysis of how the Bible serves as the repository of much of the Western world’s cultural mythology. Frye himself describes The Great Code as neither a work of biblical scholarship nor […]
[…] other suggestions on how to survive as a gentile in Utah, offered this tip: “Ask guides at the Beehive House how many wives Brigham Young had. (Of my last four tours, the answer has […]
[…] if I were God? If I were God I would, as many claim he did, create the world and then give us a few billion years to work out our own salvation, possibly with […]
[…] provokes a mental observation on experiences that have taught him “his first terror of the simple elemental world.” He remembers the difficulty of thawing a frozen water line and thinks of his grandparents “lasting […]
[…] ways. Serving no purpose that I could discern, some biblical and extra-biblical parallels were presented all in English except for one word in Hebrew, Greek, or occasionally Egyptian or Syriac transliteration. This transliterated word […]