Called Not to Serve
April 24, 2021[…] miracle, a direct intervention from God, that I found the humility to seek help and the medication —Geodon—that saved my life. My mind cleared up, and soon my soul did, too. As the months […]
[…] miracle, a direct intervention from God, that I found the humility to seek help and the medication —Geodon—that saved my life. My mind cleared up, and soon my soul did, too. As the months […]
[…] flourishing unabated through much of the nineteenth , permitted men to declare their love for other men —or women for other women—with impunity.” Because nineteenth-century Americans rarely referred to the sexual side of their […]
[…] testify that hearts can be touched, attitudes can be changed, and lives can be saved. Carla Brown —Atlanta, Georgia “Mom, I’m gay.” Even two years later I can still remember that moment. The sun […]
[…] same one found in the text under consideration. That parallels exist in a wide variety of texts —separated temporally, geographically, and culturally— is an undeniable fact. The challenge is to adequately explain what the […]
[…] verifiable biological or historical underpinning linking it to ancient American Indians. In other words, the best explanation —i.e., the most plausible one—remains a nineteenth-century origin of the Book of Mormon. My purpose here is […]
[…] little particular attention. They didn’t think that that much was really happening, but they did work together as they had previously, and what is interesting, they began a run of activity which continues to […]
[…] lived through most of it, it seems too much like autobiography. That sensation was even more pronounced in the summer of 2004 when I confronted a stack of books on the emergence of second-wave […]
[…] that the story refers not so much to unique historic events as to ritual forms and traditions —all these must be checked. So far we have heard what is wrong or at least suspect […]
Both the Protestant and Catholic communities are being swept by a passion for honesty. They are scrutinizing centuries-old suppositions and re-examining current attitudes and goals. In the Protestant world, the writings of Bultmann, Bonhoeffer, Tillich,…
[…] title of the book is appropriate: It is the name of a certain fictional mound or tell —layers on layers of rubble left by successive inhabitants who clustered near a typical water-source in Palestine. […]