by Patrick Mason | Feb 29, 2016 | Apologetics, Church History, Featured, General authorities, Leadership, Prophets |
Being a parent features many cringe-inducing experiences. For my wife and I, one of those cringe-worthy moments was when we were at the home of my non-LDS parents-in-law and my children spontaneously decided to march around singing (at the top of their lungs) the...
by Michelle Wiener | Feb 24, 2016 | Activism, Agency, Apologetics, Atonement, Bible Scholarship, Book of Mormon, Charity, Church, Church History, Compassion, Corporate Church, covenants, decisions, Disagreement, Education, Faith, faith crisis, Faith Crisis, Family, Featured, Fellowship, Feminism, General authorities, Heavenly Mother, History, Honesty, Individuality, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Leadership, Mormonism, Mother in Heaven, Old Testament, Policy, prophecy, Prophets, Relief Society, restoration, Revelation, Savior, scripture, spirituality, Symbolism, The Holy ghost, Theology, Truth, unity, Why I Am Mormon, Young Womens |
To Presidents Oscarson, McConkie, and Marriott of the General Young Women’s Presidency: Once a month, the Young Women join us at the beginning of Relief Society, as we all recite in unison the Young Women’s Theme; which begins, “We are daughters of our Heavenly...
by Jonathan Cannon | Feb 15, 2016 | Apologetics, Book of Mormon, Book Reviews, Featured, Revelation, scripture translation |
The Audience and an Overview I think it would be a mistake to read The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon, by Brant Gardner, as an apologetic work. Gardner certainly takes up, and to an extent takes on, many of the reasons people give for rejecting the...
by Benjamin Knoll | Jan 24, 2016 | Apologetics, Book Reviews, Disagreement, Faith Crisis, Featured, Politics, Prophets |
One of the most important and consequential phenomena in American politics over the last half-century has been the gradual alignment of political ideology and partisanship in the mass public (especially voters). In the 1950s you’d be hard pressed to guess someone’s...
by Jonathan Cannon | Jan 18, 2016 | Apologetics, Book of Mormon, Featured, science, scripture, scripture translation |
Measuring Style in the Book of Mormon This blog post is long (3000 words, 28 images), and it is a quick, poor, and short summary of stylometry relevant to the Book of Mormon. I’ve left out some topics that were only covered with words. I’ve not...
by Jonathan Cannon | Oct 19, 2015 | Apologetics, Faith, Featured, General authorities, Individuality, Natural Theology, Obedience |
“Therefore when Tao is lost, there is goodness. When goodness is lost, there is kindness. When kindness is lost, there is justice. When justice is lost, there is ritual. Now ritual is the husk of faith and loyalty, the beginning of confusion. Knowledge of the...
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