The Unbidden Prayer
March 22, 2018[…] standing starts doing genealogy work and finds he has a black ancestor? Should he be unordained? You get the picture. Religious issues aside, it was pragmatically unfeasible to both bar black males from the […]
[…] standing starts doing genealogy work and finds he has a black ancestor? Should he be unordained? You get the picture. Religious issues aside, it was pragmatically unfeasible to both bar black males from the […]
I have a distant relative who is an avid genealogist. She is fond of joking that, whenever two people talk about genealogy, one of them is bored. If this quip has any truth to it,…
[…] meetings often seem lengthy, inefficient, repetitive, and a waste of precious time. Faced with fewer opportunities for service and heightened frustration with LDS meetings, women look for other avenues of social service. They also […]
Extended chiasms were apparently an ancient Hebrew literary form. Since they were little known during Joseph Smith’s day, any extended chiasms in the Book of Mormon would be evidence of the book’s ancient Hebrew origins. John W. Welch has identified a number of extended chiasms in the Book of Mormon, one of his favorites being Alma 36. Among his many defenders are the father-and-son team of Farrell and Boyd Edwards, both physics professors.
[…] his life, and he told me he was a student in Brooklyn or Berkeley—that part I didn’t get clearly—and he told me he was majoring in literature. I asked him if the name Troy […]
[…] due to varying interpretations about the one mighty and strong. Accordingly, Roberts was directed “to write a paper setting forth a full explanation of this revelation.” The First Presidency, consisting of Joseph F. Smith, […]
[…] the New Testament report (James 5:17-18) of 1 Kings 17:1 and 18:1. Oliver Cowdery agreed in an essay published in the Times and Seasons in 1840. In another New Testament reference, Joseph seems clear […]
[…] Other findings troubled him such as learning that scholars believe there were two Isaiahs, the second one writing after the Diaspora, a fact his institute teacher hotly disputed until Mark found a reference to […]
[…] to spare the bush a little longer. I have trouble with this ending. The clear message I get from the parable is that the lord of the vineyard overwatered the olive but that the […]
The American-born Allan West has become widely respected for his pursuit of a traditional form in Japan. Raised in Washington, D.C., Allan served in the Okayama Japan mission during the early 1980s. In 1987, he…