[…] says, beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the rudiments of the world.” Here “reason” marks a practice of theorizing about religious matters which ignores continuing revelation, a practice […]
[…] to faith: that God had fulfilled his promises to Israel and had brought salvation to the whole world through a crucified and risen Messiah. Paul extends this basic story into the present moment by […]
[…] the descendants of an Israelite family who left Jerusalem around 600 B.C.E. to come to the New World. According to the book’s story, this family not only kept a record of their history, which, […]
[…] the English language and law, in describing the paradigmatic shift from early feudal European society to a world of secular, territorial nation-states and market economy, observed that we had moved “from status to contract.” […]
[…] wrong tree? Are they roped to the trunk of the tree to hold them safe in a world subject to wind and weather? What have we here? Simians in their element? Men at risk? […]
[…] so. But Amulek concludes, “The law requireth the life of him who hath murdereth therefore there can be nothing short of an in finite atonement which will suffice for the sins of the world“(Alma 34:12).
[…] sets of component rites. Thus, the sacrament usually includes this essentially invariable sequence: (1) congregational singing; (2) breaking the bread, then kneeling (by the officiant) to bless the sacrament; (3) reciting the prayer of blessing […]
[…] human cost. For both my and my wife’s families there was no relative killed or wounded in World War II. The same may be written for war veterans of my Cedar Valley home. Hunting […]
[…] 238 pp. “President Bush Presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom,” June 23, 2004, White House webpage, http://www.whitehouse.gov/ news/re leases/2004/06/20040623-8.html. One of the three was David O. McKay who later served as Church president (1951-70). […]
[…] even before he and Beth married. Sometimes he would write, “Thank you for bringing Beth into this world.” Other times, “You’re the mother that I never had.” Although he did have a mother: a […]