[…] years, my exit from the ward doors to see what I could see in the big wide world? Why not talk about my en counters with other “isms”—Taoism, Buddhism, humanism, existential ism, fundamentalism, Sufism, […]
[…] thoughtful consideration, they conclude that certain events, felt by believers to be critically important to their faith, world view, and entire way of life, probably happened substantially differently than is represented in orthodox accounts? […]
[…] mercy on the efforts of human deity personified by Prometheus—reason, intelligence, and enlightenment—to wrest control of the world. Perhaps, in Zeus’ blind vengeance against Prometheus for bestowing fire on mortals, the ancient Greeks personified […]
[…] yesterday, to-day, and forever; and the way is prepared for all men from the foundation of the world. 2 Nephi 7:4-5, p. 66: He waketh mine ear to hear as the learned. The Lord […]
[…] of this world and rulers in the kingdom. Matthew, in contrast to Luke’s conservatism with regard to breaking up and redistributing Q material, has, in the process of developing five major dominical discourses (Matt. […]
[…] often considered by Mormons to be a moving account of orthodox (Hasidic to be exact) Jewish boys breaking from their religion and tradition in order to pursue a powerful, inner identity. But these books […]
[…] and dreamed dreams, re stored the church, and revealed the will of the Lord to a sinful world.” To resolve this “schizophrenic state of Mormon history, with its double interpretive strand of Joseph Smith […]
[…] asserts that God has absolute control over our destiny and through his church total control over our world. Lutheranism leaves us some choices with some non-religious worldly controls. Catholicism di vides the controls separating […]
[…] this argument, not for the purpose of discovering the truth about Jefferson, but to reveal to the world the methodological and character defects of Fawn Brodie and, thereby, conclude that a writer of such “bad” […]
[…] whispering attendants to my lifelong dialogues with Joseph. I had to remind myself that I see the world differently than I did forty years ago. I’d come on a long and tortured journey. Until […]