[…] its provenance in the vocabulary of Joseph Smith; but it translates a fatherly concern of the highest order. The heart is at stake here, the seat of thought, desire, and volition in Biblical usage; […]
[…] on the Mount, Jesus made an even more demanding proclamation of what God asks of us in order to be his children and follow his example, “Ye have heard that it hath been said, […]
[…] key source of tension between Mormons on the one hand and mainstream Christians on the other. In order to understand this, it is perhaps best to examine first the ways in which the original […]
[…] thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head” (13). Edgar then narrates his tale of hospital recovery, boarding school horrors, Mormon con […]
[…] salvation, and a separate instance of the same kind of ordinance must be performed for you in order for you to be saved. Ordinances are not thought to be sufficient for salvation, however. Catholicism, […]
[…] and others which he abridged and provided with introductions. These were printed in very inexpensive editions in order to facilitate the widest possible distribution. Wesley encouraged his circuit riders to carry a stock of […]
[…] of light he had felt since meeting Allison. Could he embrace hope by choice, giving it priority over fear?” (p. 148). Eventually he learns “that prayer was a form of eternal calculus, a way […]
[…] because he feared for his own survival and for that of his family if he did not buy into the propaganda that Mother Russia could only be the Soviet Union—and vice versa—particularly when there […]
[…] surgery. A team of surgeons from nearby Dartmouth College removed chucks of diseased bone without anesthesia in order to save his leg. With perceptive insight, Remini theorizes concerning both the short and long-range consequences […]
[…] a place where, as the Book of Mormon puts it, everything restored will be to a “proper order” (Alma 41:4). In other words, not only will goodness be met with good, but evil will […]