A Superior Alternative
June 21, 2023[…] priority. I had a hard time believing that when I first heard it. Since I was little, writing has been my top priority. Well, okay, after church and family. While I was growing up […]
[…] priority. I had a hard time believing that when I first heard it. Since I was little, writing has been my top priority. Well, okay, after church and family. While I was growing up […]
[…] tombstone. Yet Roberts was also well known to give “aggressively anti-Catholic” radio addresses, and his influential apostasy-narrative writings relied heavily on “anti-Catholic polemics.” In his Outlines of Ecclesiastical History, he recounted a skeptical account […]
[…] that I use the word “practicing” deliberately. Like playing the piano, if one stops practicing, one’s skills get rusty. In order for religious truths to become normal, natural, and transparent they must be made […]
[…] entering into the priesthood to serve and bless the lives of those around her? Her power and service may not need to include nor be limited to motherhood or marriage. Priesthood ordination is one […]
Although the civil rights laws of the 1960s outlawed segregation in education, employment, housing, and public services, black Americans and white Americans rarely interact socially and especially religiously. Prior to the 1960s some denominations, […]
[…] names given to children in the US between 1960 and 2020. As a first foray into the topic, the twenty most popular names given to children in the twenty-first century (2001–2020) were examined. The […]
[…] Mormon converts amounting to several thousands. Early in 1963, half a dozen missionaries were set apart for service in Nigeria that would have included not only proselyting, but also the construction and operation of […]
[…] incorporating larger contexts that informed contemporary developments in other historical disciplines. Mormon historians found themselves talking and writing for each other and for a small community of people who were mostly interested in the […]
[…] and well-matured of the scholarly endeavors which have the Restoration as their subject. The paucity of critical writings in the various fields of theology and philosophy is by comparison especially striking. The phenomenon is […]
[…] as far as the section preserved is concerned. DIALOGUE: I have been told that there was some writing on the margins of some of the papyri, or at least on the material that the […]