[…] blessing; etc.) do not impair judgments about its antiquity, since these are simply the views of the human authors in antiquity. In contrast, the supernatural method of production claimed for the Book of Mormon […]
I AM NATASHA MCDONALD. THIS IS MY MOM AND DAD. I HAVE CEREBRAL PALSY. I THINK AND FEEL LIKE YOU DO BUT THE PART OF MY BRAIN THAT CONTROLS MY PHYSICAL SELF WAS DAMAGED WHEN…
[…] has some utility as long as we understand that it cannot completely capture the inherent complexity of human sexuality. Since libido also varies in strength, one could likewise speak of a scale for this […]
[…] the art department and a set designer and painter. In the classroom, he taught drawing, painting, calligraphy, design, and art history. During the summers, for many years he conducted student fine art tours to […]
[…] strongest chiasm in the Book of Mormon, Alma 36 . . . appeared in this book by design and rules out the hypothesis that it appeared by chance.” Their “quantitative judgments regarding the intentionality […]
Mormon history is part of the colonization history of the American West; and the LDS Church, as a major player in that process, still bears a colonization imprint in many ways. The colonizing days are over now, and the Church is part of a major political presence in the world, no longer the colonized, but rather the colonizer. In this article, I argue that the Utah-based modern Church has replicated the same colonization process on its membership abroad to which it was once subjected.
[…] the Earth that time and circumstance have abused beyond measure. It is easy to become cynical about human nature when surrounded by people victimized by every form of degradation. But when you experience (the most […]
[…] “a general negative critique by Latter-day Saints is not surprising in view of Brooke’s explanation in strictly human terms of virtually everything the Saints hold sacred.” She observes also that “many LDS scholars seem […]
[…] in fourth grade a nun told our class that one of the mysteries of God that the human mind could not comprehend was that God has been here forever. She said that as humans […]
[…] a message to someone,” while at the same time “the visit of a spirit messenger to a human was common in magic and familiar to folk perceptions” (Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, […]