[…] before we headed west, I discovered that the ideals that had always mattered most to me—social justice, human rights, and mercy (giving people a second chance)—were more of ten championed by the left than […]
The Marrow of Human Experience collects seventeen of William A. (“Bert”) Wilson’s essays from three decades of a distinguished career. The topics of the essays vary, but all of them reflect, in one way […]
[…] to see how the urge to influence, exact submission, defend dominance, gives away the presence of natal human “sin” whose punishment is the burden of responsibility. I was alone. . . . My poem […]
[…] categories of interpretation there are for supernatural events–for what Orsi calls supernatural “presences” or “abundant events”–that influence human behavior and with which humans construct relationships. Though Orsi’s area of study is American Catholicism, and […]
[…] analysis that follows. Morally or theologically objectionable material found in the scriptures themselves may be blamed on human author failings (an author bias theory) or universal human limitations (a fallible human theory). In a […]
[…] children of the various peoples attending school together, and another shows the family tree of a half- human, half-Othersheep person (8–9). The resurrected Christ, we learn, appeared to the people of each world in […]
[…] only like God, but Gods themselves. While other believers might consider such a belief the height of human pride or even blasphemy, for Latter-day Saints it is a manifestation of the ultimate love of […]
[…] of estrangement haunts modern life and literature and thought. The feeling is not at all new to human experience, but in our time we seem especially conscious of it. More men seem caught up […]
[…] own account states otherwise, and pointing out every possible trait he can criticize. It’s such a universal human reaction that I think everyone in this room can identify with what he’s doing. Anyone who […]
[…] closest attention.” More recently BYU professor Richard L. Anderson wrote less favorably: “The Sorry Tale spins overdone human tragedy but fades out the divine tragedy of Christ’s atonement for sin. Its Jesus teaches an […]