“I’d Rather Be…”
April 17, 2018[…] a personal choice, the second a national or even universal choice. Given what has happened in the world since the fifties, we may already have made that choice. By building and deploying and stockpiling […]
[…] a personal choice, the second a national or even universal choice. Given what has happened in the world since the fifties, we may already have made that choice. By building and deploying and stockpiling […]
[…] two decades has been to bring a measure of objectivity to our perceptions of ourselves and our world. This, of course, is the stuff of serious scholarship everywhere. Lavina: How objective do you think […]
[…] [Mecham] personally, he would share with you his story of why he decided to run. To the world, it looked like vain ambition. To the many who try to follow promptings in their lives, […]
[…] her adult life with her husband, Henry Stark, a research chemist. Adoptive parents of three, they nurtured the Delaware Branch from its ecclesiastical preexistence until it became the Delaware Stake in 1974, only five […]
[…] from the particular matrix of RLDS symbols, stories, and events; the wider Christian community; and the modern world. Undergirding such theologies will be the conviction that God is at work in and through all […]
[…] nationalities and races—the Depression-born Works Progress Administration (WPA) would count twenty-eight in my town. This was a world of anxiety for a child of immigrant parents. Stepping out of the home each day meant […]
[…] the English language and law, in describing the paradigmatic shift from early feudal European society to a world of secular, territorial nation-states and market economy, observed that we had moved “from status to contract.” […]
The doctrine of divine providence states that God is the supreme governor of the world—past, present, and future. Different versions of the doctrine depend on different interpretations of governance. The strongest version of this […]
[…] acclamations of the Lord’s kingship such as Psalms 47, 93, 95-100 and for celebrations of the Lord’s world-establishing victory such as Psalms 29, 46, 48, 76, 93, 95-99, and 104. Not all the psalms […]
[…] meal. The dealer approach our row. Gandhi’s words spring to my mind, “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” I approach […]