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 […]
[…] America—to use language I learned in church—a “city on a hill,” an example to the big wide world my extended family came from, or was it “Babylon,” worldwide marketer of wickedness, where wrong was […]
On the day after Christmas in 1915, Joseph F. Smith (JFS), then president of the LDS Church and less than three years away from his own death, spoke to a group of people in […]
[…] knows of our loneliness and longing and sorrows over our broken hearts and weeps over our broken world, wouldn’t she (doesn’t she?) at least equally do the same? If faith and reason tell us […]
[…] article will explain what trauma is and how to be trauma informed, describe a few examples from the Book of Mormon in which a sensitivity to trauma could reveal greater insights from the text, […]
[…] knows of our loneliness and longing and sorrows over our broken hearts and weeps over our broken world, wouldn’t she (doesn’t she?) at least equally do the same? If faith and reason tell us […]
[…] fuller sense of feminine divinity. McArthur: Plus, Bethany and I both have three daughters. We want the world to be a different place for them to grow up in. Look around. Is this a […]
[…] he is not just. Mercy is a similar attribute. “God himself atoneth for the sins of the world, to bring about the plan of mercy, to appease the demands of justice, that God might […]