Rethinking Revelation
April 5, 2023[…] free of consequences that are both good and bad. This is part of the fabric of the human experience. We will never make decisions that do not ripple outward into the universe positively and […]
[…] free of consequences that are both good and bad. This is part of the fabric of the human experience. We will never make decisions that do not ripple outward into the universe positively and […]
[…] believe my mind holds the keys, and always has. We can’t forget, I tell my clients, the human mind is housed in the human brain, and the brain is an organ in the body. […]
[…] examines the Christian present as a “probationary” or “preparatory” state. Part III explores the temporal nature of human existence. Helaman is examined by Kimberly Matheson Berkey, PhD candidate in theology at Loyola University Chicago. […]
[…] the inevitability of sin. These tensions must remain lively and resist the kinds of reified categories that human beings are wont to create to give the illusion of stability and permanence: Nephite and Lamanite, […]
[…] Ice Age, ending about 8,000 B.C. No anthropologist disputes the evidence of bones from animal kills. Early humans left a clearly marked trail down and across the Americas. The majority of early native American […]
[…] of Mormon or Doctrine and Covenants when discussing the topic. It seems to be part of the human condition to rely on the tried and true rather than the new. Nor did the early […]
[…] vigil for six (one and two) still takes time’ And we hope we weren’t slighted by outright design. Alas all our neighbors have now been alerted On women in church from the home fires […]
[…] to go, but at last he got his face turned toward his home, more by accident than design, and went reeling along the road not knowing where he was; he would have passed his […]
[…] did traditional magic, Mormon cosmology also materialized the spiritual. This rendered the supernatural ultimately comprehensible by purposeful human inquiry. As Joseph Smith wrote, “There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is […]
[…] Smiths believed that nearly all the hills in this part of New York, were thrown up by human hands, and in them were large caves, which Joseph Jr., could see, by placing a stone […]