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Note: This article one of the special web-only series and not printed in a physical issue.

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I begin in the New Testament, in the book of 1 John, a text written by someone presumed to be John the Beloved: My dear children, I write this to you so that you will…

I Was a Stranger . . .

One hundred seventy-two years ago this coming Wednesday, July 24, the first company of Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley, which was to be their new home. Being mostly a desert, it didn’t look…

Review: Embraced in Love Eric D. Huntsman. Becoming the Beloved Disciple: Coming unto Christ through the Gospel of John.

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Reasonably Good Tidings of Greater- than-Average Joy Grant Hardy, ed. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, Maxwell Institute Study Edition.

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Note: This article one of the special web-only series and not printed in a physical issue.

Jesus Christ, Esq.

I begin in the New Testament, in the book of 1 John, a text written by someone presumed to be John the Beloved: My dear children, I write this to you so that you will…

I Was a Stranger . . .

One hundred seventy-two years ago this coming Wednesday, July 24, the first company of Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley, which was to be their new home. Being mostly a desert, it didn’t look…

Review: Embraced in Love Eric D. Huntsman. Becoming the Beloved Disciple: Coming unto Christ through the Gospel of John.

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Reasonably Good Tidings of Greater- than-Average Joy Grant Hardy, ed. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, Maxwell Institute Study Edition.

Resurrection

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Pre-Mortality in Mystical Islam and the Cosmic Journey of the Soul

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Choral Music in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Common Beginnings, Divergent Beliefs

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Common Beginnings, Divergent Beliefs

The Great Dialogue West-East Trek

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A Modern Evangelist: The Mortal Messiah, Book I by Bruce R. McConkie

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Cultural Reflections: The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch

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Saints You Can Sink Your Teeth Into: Kindred Saints: The Mormon Immigrant Heritage of Alvin and Kathryn Christensen

Saints You Can Sink Your Teeth Into: Kindred Saints: The Mormon Immigrant Heritage of Alvin and Kathryn Christensen

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Comments on the Theological and Philosophical Foundations of Christianity

Anti-Christian Fundamentalism: Casting the First Stone: The Hypocrisy of Religious Fundamentalism by R. A. Gilbert

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The Sabbath Day: To Heal or Not to Heal

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Jesus Christ in the New Testament: Part Two: Various Images of Jesus in the Books of the New Testament

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“Easy to be Entreated:” Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent and Christian Communication

Did Christ Pay for Our Sins?

One Well-Wrought Side of the Story: Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftain, Mormon Elder, 1822-1887 by Scott R. Christensen

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Eugene England: Our Brother in Christ

Christmas Card from Siple Station, Antarctica

No Other Way?: Rescue for the Dead: The Posthumous Salvation of Non-Christians in Early Christianity

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Sunday Morning — Eight Days Before Christmas, 2001

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In this paper I will briefly discuss what I see as the six major differences between the two churches during the first century of their existence, and then I will look at eight new differences…

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Christmas Conflict 2001

The First Piece in the Puzzle: Walking in the Sand: A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ghana by Emmanuel Abu Kissi

Garden Tomb

Carterville

Christmas Carol (Post-Christmas: 2005)

Is Joseph Smith Relevant to the Community of Christ?

I spoke as a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints/Communit y of Christ. As a result, I had a decidedly different perspective on Joseph Smith than my co-panelists.

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“The Grandest Principle of the Gospel”: Christian Nihilis Sanctified Activism and Eternal Progression

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Buildings

May Many Phoenixes Rise

A Deep Reverence in My Heart; Part of Our Family

Looked like a Church, Sounded like a Church; How Beautiful Our Waters of Mormon

Move Back in a Heartbeat

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Tribute to a Building; Giving Church a Try

Not Different from My Home

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Narnia’s Aslan, Earth’s Darwin, and Heaven’s God

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“The Highest Class of Adulterers and Whoremongers”: Plural Marriage, the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite), and the Construction of Memory

Blythe shows the denial among Culterites followers that the founder was involved in plural marriage.

Review: Adam S. Miller. Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology

Woman: Joint Heiress With Christ

Review: Adam S. Miller. Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology

Review: Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith. Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of the Presiding Patriarch H. Michael Marquardt, ed. Early Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints H. Michael Marquardt, ed. Later Patriarchal Blessi

Review: Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens. The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life

Two-Dog Dose

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