[…] possible origins for the translation of the Book of Mormon. It was either a divine translation, a human translation, or a machine translation. What I mean by “machine” translation is some sort of preprogrammed […]
[…] of modern prophets, is always mediated through the lens of culture. They recognize the all-too-limited perspective of human understanding, the elusive nature of truth, and the intellectually and spiritually unsatisfying feeling of facile answers […]
“Hair-Raising Tales from the Department of the Interior: A Report from the Front Lines of the Battle Against Boredom”
[…] D. Hunt and K. H. Blacker in Dialogue (Winter 1968). I believe that technical knowledge, capacity, and human feelings in a psychotherapist are more important for his patient than his marriage. I would not […]
[…] much of my little metaphor, trying to make it exclude the ligitimate functions of supplying and distributing human needs and yet include materialism in all its manifestations. Exploitation is the key. But my summary […]
[…] an excessive legalism and with a superficial optimism in its estimate of man and its conception of human history. Moreover, it has usually managed to mis understand the traditional concept of original sin and […]
A cowboy from Wyoming taught me everything I know about charity. He taught me that charity is about respecting our shared human experience.
[…] most constructive. Even the third category (which appeared to me to be the weakest approach), wherein the human and non supernatural were emphasized in religion, may be helpful. It’s my opinion that a testimony […]
[…] of science as a straightforward progression toward truth. In fact, science relies on the assumed ability of human beings to reason, which remains unprovable in any scientific manner. Indeed, the authors conclude that science […]
[…] story of US settler colonialism that could be rehabilitated—something sacred, something cross-cultural, and also something more than human. I can’t speak for my readers, who now own that book as much as I do, […]