[…] in the late 1980s. During a western vacation, I visited Colorado City, Arizona, on January 2, 1988, and talked my way into some friendships which continue to this day. FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs, his […]
[…] in religion-making. It is my hope that I will be able to express my mediating thoughts in a way that will not be deemed offensive by those of either school of thought on the subject.
[…] I was teaching, a question came up about the lineage of Mary, mother of Jesus. A knowledgeable and respected class member answered that Mary was a descendent of David. I observed that Mary’s genealogy […]
[…] her “vegetarian” vampire beau, Edward Cullen, as they first meet in Forks, Washington, fall into forbidden love, and, after conquering a series of increasingly threatening obstacles, live happily ever after as immortal husband and wife.
I first heard the tales of Hugh Nibley, the brilliant and eccentric LDS scholar whose fertile and fecund brain defended and expanded the faith of thoughtful Church members, virtually at my mother’s knee. I […]
[…] me think he’d lose everything. “Here are the keys. You old enough to drive?” “Of course I am,” I said. “It’s out there somewhere in back.” In the yard, a repository of lost souls […]
[…] But . . . ” “What?” “They’re all Peculiars.” I sigh. You will be pleased with this news. The remaining bits of Zion, the Mormons who still want to be a peculiar people finding […]
[…] young Indian doctor appears at the door. “What’s happening?” Dan asks. The doctor motions them outside. “I am Dr. Gill,” he says, and shakes their hands. He looks at Carma’s cane. “R.A.,” she answers […]
In this final session of the “Spirit of Dialogue” conference, Marlin Jensen and Greg Prince dialogue about “The Future of Faith.” Transcript included.
[…] Roundtable, Dialogue 42.3, (Fall 2009): 99–132. “Six Voices on Proposition 8: A Roundtable Introduction” by Russell Arben Fox “Two Modes of Political Engagement” by David Watkins “The Church’s Use of Secular Arguments” by Kaimipono […]