The Gospel of Mark repeatedly echoes the Hebrew Bible: from the extensive thematic and verbal parallels between Jesus’ calming of the sea and the story of Jonah to the quotation of a single […]
When I was growing up, comic strips provided part of the ontology of my world. I devoured regular comic books, graphic novels, and other bubble-voiced media, but comic strips played a different and more […]
My first encounter with Islamic art was a photograph of the Alhambra: architecture transfigured by light, into light. It expressed a spiritual reality in a way I had not seen before.
[…] Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that he was crucified for the sins of the world. To others it is given to believe on their words, that they also might have eternal […]
[…] Indians and a destiny of the scattering from Babel The restoration of ancient Christianity to an apostate world The visit of Jesus as God to America The continuous cycle of righteousness and ruin, ending […]
[…] extrapolated from what Betty, second clarinet, said about what Tabitha, first clarinet, did last Saturday: They enter the hotel room, both of them shaking as only virgins can shake. Somehow he manages to place […]
If someone ever asks me what kinds of things Steven Peck writes, the best answer I can give goes like this: the BYU biology professor and raconteur writes primarily in the fields of evolutionary […]
[…] small loosely organized group with a charismatic prophet-type leader to an efficient religious bureaucracy which serves a world-wide membership of over two million. Joseph Smith was an innovator, a creative agent of change. Today […]
[…] on the same materials to show that the Council in Heaven motif is found throughout the ancient world is “The Expanding Gospel,” BYU Studies, VII (Autumn 1965), 3-27. In this article Nibley attempts to […]
[…] to effect program and policy changes. But so was the League of Women’s Voters, organized just after World War I. Although, as I have said, partisanship is restrained, the book adopts all the major […]