[…] reflecting the traditional Christian supersessionist assessments of Israel’s “religion” and the reasons for its “exile” into the world. The first editorial position blended well with the predominant American journalistic temperament. Religious persecution was repugnant […]
[…] the newspapers were late, we saw and heard enough about the “way it was” out in the world to huddle together—secure, protected, encircled by the eternal mountains. We thanked God for our membership in […]
[…] that brings me to admit what I will tell you now, namely, that when it comes to the Book of Mormon, that most correct of books, whose pedigree we love passionately to debate and […]
[…] had elsewhere indicated was necessary due to textual corruption. But the principles he used, starting with an English text, proceeding with a mix of common-sense corrections and harmonizations plus sporadic revelations and his own […]
Refashioned beyond recognition, Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Games in February 2002. While the world partied Olympically—Budweisers in hand, whooping it up in chaotic street fetes—Latter-day Saints found haven in the LDS Conference […]
Each spring the Christian world celebrates the most important week in history—Passion Week or Holy Week, the time between Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem and his atonement, death, and resurrection. Throughout the world the […]
Apples! Bags and boxes of apples! So many of them lined the perimeter of our garage that the car hardly fit. It was mid-October, and I stood there counting the apples picked from our […]
The apologetic works of Clive Staples (“Jack”) Lewis have transcended denominational boundaries to reach an impressively diverse Christian audience. From the beginning of his apologetic career in the mid-1930s, Lewis received letters from […]
[…] We assumed he had told her where he stayed. But she wasn’t entirely oriented to the sober world and she had pounded on several doors, knowing she was looking for us, but the wrong […]
When my parents died, I inherited our family’s Buddhist altar, or butsudan. It now sits in my living room in Lexington, Massachusetts. I pray before it about twice a month. I burn a stick […]