by Benjamin Knoll | Jun 10, 2018 | Charity, Church, Featured, Religion |
In the years before World War 2, Dietrich Bonhoeffer became increasingly distressed at the German church’s willingness to embrace and enable the Nazi regime in exchange for political recognition and power. On July 23, 1933, he delivered the “Church...
by Benjamin Knoll | May 13, 2018 | Featured, God, Goodness, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Mindfulness |
Image credit: Sermon on the Mount by Cosimo Rosselli (1439-1507) This year I have been reading an edited volume of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s written works. Bonhoeffer was a German pastor who joined the resistance against the Nazi regime during World War II and was...
by Benjamin Knoll | Apr 26, 2018 | Agency, Agency, Featured, Temple Recommend, Word of Wisdom, Word of Wisdom |
In a recent article in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, John Ferguson, Jana Riess, and I share results from the 2016 Next Mormons Survey regarding observance of the Word of Wisdom among self-identified American Mormons. We find that there is a high degree of...
by Benjamin Knoll | Apr 22, 2018 | Featured |
This month I had the opportunity to visit Santiago, Guatemala as part of a study abroad trip. Santiago is a thriving town of about 50,000 residents located on the shores of Lake Atitlán in southwest Guatemala. Lake Atitlán is surrounded by several volcanoes and a...
by Benjamin Knoll | Feb 6, 2018 | Agency, Belief, Family, Goodness, Jesus Christ |
Mormon historian Richard Bushman recently sat down for an interview with Blair Hodges for the Maxwell Institute Podcast. They discuss several interesting topics, including Bushman’s research, upcoming projects, as well as the nexus of faith and scholarship. Toward the...
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