by Russell Stevenson | Dec 10, 2015 | Church History, Featured |
As anyone who hasn’t been living under an internet rock knows by now (and if you have been living under a rock, that’s fine too—given the state of things, I would envy you), Donald Trump has called for banning all immigration of Muslims to the United States. His plan...
by Russell Stevenson | Nov 12, 2015 | Featured, Homosexuality |
What are we to do? This week, every nerve of our social and moral sensitivity has been frayed, our temperaments rattled, and our hearts pulled in every direction. Questions pulse through every limb, leaving our spirits shocked, lost, and alone. Sometimes, it seems as...
by Russell Stevenson | Oct 8, 2015 | Faith, faith crisis, Featured, History |
This was originally posted at www.mormonhistoryguy.com So you don’t really care about Mormon history. “People are people and the gospel is the gospel,” you say. What’s the point? You have a lot of things on your plate. And whether Joseph Smith used a rock, some...
by Russell Stevenson | Aug 13, 2015 | Featured, History |
We define ourselves by the stories we tell ourselves about our past, present, and future. And as a part of that narrative, the Saints have adopted—and co-opted—the religious traditions of the Protestants in their celebration of religious freedom. BYUTV produced an...
by Russell Stevenson | Jul 9, 2015 | Book Reviews, Featured |
When J. Kameron Carter, one of the more compelling theologians of black spirituality today, was asked about the shooting of Trayvon Martin, he argued that Christianity must “reckon with the fact of how our churches in many ways reproduces the very social structures...
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