Thinking About the Word of God in the Twenty-First Century
April 6, 2018[…] king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord … and then said I, ‘Woe is me! because I am a man of unclean lips’” )? (2) Should we consider the word of God as absolute […]
[…] king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord … and then said I, ‘Woe is me! because I am a man of unclean lips’” )? (2) Should we consider the word of God as absolute […]
[…] 1998):59–83</i><br>THE BOOK OF MORMON HAS OCCASIONALLY been portrayed as a deficient first novel. Its characters appear flat and stereotypical; the plots and characters seem to lack moral subtlety; and so on. Should we wonder […]
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[…] to situate my comments. A well-known scholar of nineteenth-century American religion visits a seminar in which I am enrolled. Realizing that we must have mutual acquaintances, I introduce myself during a class break. Sure […]
My grandma died three years ago. What I have of her now is a collection of odds and ends of memories. I have a few physical reminders: her senior class ring from Jordan High […]
[…] windstorm, perhaps, which ever visited Salt Lake, prevailed between 10:30 and 12 o’clock noon,” declared the Deseret News in describing the storm, “the destruction . . . was beyond precedent here.” “The air was […]
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[…] claims of Mormonism depend. The worlds of mythos and logos on the page were coming to me live and in predictable collision from across the room. Nor was it lost on me that both […]
<i>Dialogue 36.3 (2003): 53-80</i><br> Compton considers priesthood as portrayed in Old Testament texts and how women are underrepresented in today’s discourse.