[…] analogies to modern situations and thus find relevance. Compton: Foreign scripture can be made relevant to an English-speaking reader through translation and through cultural interpretation. We should also develop our living scripture based on […]
[…] There has been no widespread return to a unitary theory of the Pentateuch in biblical studies, thus, breaking the long pattern of parallelism with the classicists. The long, parallel development between the two fields […]
[…] not the first prediction from Rodney Stark that has proved pleasing to the LDS leadership. Yet, for today’s LDS members in Europe, the predicted “great days of gathering,” or, in President Hinckley’s terms, “second […]
[…] B. H. Roberts, Defense of the Faith and the Saints, 2 vols. (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News Press, 1907), 1:514. Conference Report, April 1921, 33. Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: F. D. […]
[…] a formidable broadcast institution. Through subsidiary corporations and institutions it owns sixteen radio and television stations, a sophisticated international broadcast distribution system, a Washington news bureau, a cable TV system and production and consulting divisions.
[…] “In the small plates we find the deepest and richest expansion of the whole covenantal story.” I share Harris’s sense of the importance of the small plates, especially as they relate to God’s covenant […]
Art and religion share a common end and a common enemy. The common end is the enrichment of the life of the spirit; the common enemy is the market place. That the end, or […]
[…] short stories, Altmann’s Tongue, in diverse (perverse) ways. Jerry Johnston, a columnist for the Mormon church-owned Deseret News, observed, “The word ‘macabre’ comes to mind. He is a literary version of Stephen King, trading […]
[…] about. For all we know, these folks just look at us as the agents of a treaty- breaking government bent on building an empire right through their sacred lands. You know, you could really […]
[…] of this elaborate, semi-secret organization were largely commendable: to coordinate the international activities and outlooks of the English-speaking world into one (which would largely, it is true, be that of the London group); to […]