by Dr. LaShawn Williams | Oct 19, 2016 | Activism, Agency, Church, Church History, Compassion, exclusion-policy, Family, Featured, General authorities, General Conference, History, Honesty, Humanity, Jesus Christ, Policy, Politics, Prophets, Racism |
Of black sheep and #blacklivesmatter I’ve had this post in my head for months. It still may not convey all that it means to me from the night my perspective shifted yet again. However, I’m going to share what I have in hopes that this is a correct time for it. I was...
by Ron Madson | Sep 26, 2016 | Activism, Featured, History, Symbolism |
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything”—God at Mt. Sinai I hope the day will come when no one in this world will pledge allegiance to the flag of their country, and our only loyalty will be to the welfare of all...
by Lana Bean | Sep 13, 2016 | Book Reviews, Featured, Feminism, History, Reviews |
Guest Post by Lana Bean Frontier Grit by Marianne Monson Shadow Mountain Publishing, 9/6/2016 208 pages History While the etymology of the word “history” doesn’t suggest that it belongs to men, it’s perhaps appropriate that it at least sounds like “his story,” because...
by Sheldon Greaves | Jul 29, 2016 | Bible Scholarship, Book Reviews, Featured, History, Jesus, Jesus Christ, New Testament, Reviews |
Aslan, Reza. Zealot. The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. Random House, 2013. Reviewed by Sheldon Greaves, Ph.D. Zealot first came to my attention when I was teaching classes on the New Testament early Christianity at Stanford University the year the book was...
by Jonathan Cannon | Apr 18, 2016 | Featured, History, Prophets, restoration, Revelation |
The Restoration Completed I have very nearly finished reading every general conference talk given by the first four presidents of the LDS church: Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, John Taylor, and Wilford Woodruff. As I’m working through Wilford Woodruff, a trend has...
by Benjamin Knoll | Apr 5, 2016 | Church, Church History, Featured, History, Theology |
If you haven’t read Diana Butler Bass, you should. Bass has a story that should resonate strongly with many in the Rational Faiths audience. She was raised in an active church-going Methodist family and converted to conservative Evangelical Protestantism in her teens....
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