[…] and have three children. The only place in my life where I am treated like a lesser human being is at church.” I could go on and on. How is this possible? Why is […]
[…] alive, with ultimate fulness of truth, joy, and love.” Bennion also suggests that “nobody is manipulating every human decision that would affect every human experience” because, if that were the case, “we would have […]
[…] Mormon: Part I analyzes several idiosyncratic samples of Book of Mormon grammar and vocabulary that strongly suggest human error. Part II explores the persistence of archaic vocabulary in the reading material of early nineteenth-century working-class […]
[…] is able to time travel in that its effects are retroactive back to the beginning of mortal/ human history (and perhaps even stretch beyond this planet’s mortal/human history out into the vast expanse of […]
[…] in mind for them (ie., that they starve to death and be eliminated as unfit members of human race). The philosophy of “self-help” or “positive thinking,” held that men’s wills, sometimes in mystical ways, […]
[…] what I see as the tragedy of a lost and fallen world; humanism offers no answer to the human predicament. The non scriptural and popular forms of Mormon thought, in all their wide variety, now […]
[…] how in an effort to determine whether the source of the ban was divine or due to human error, “e once made the effort to review the plausible historical evidence supporting each view…. But […]
[…] tianity. It is a strange thing that many Mormons talk and write glibly about the idea that human beings can become gods and that God was once a human being, ideas that, in my […]
[…] God as well as Greek descriptions of their goddesses. But Chadwick’s goddess can be more accessible and human than the Greek pantheon, as in the delightful unrhymed sonnet beginning “Goddess stirring something up, folding […]
[…] and “the gospel,” while simultaneously expressing skepticism toward teachings they deem as more a product of “ human imperfections.” This approach is captured by a long-standing label found in LDS culture (and other faith […]