by Dr. LaShawn Williams | Mar 1, 2015 | Featured, Uncategorized |
Sometimes you read a book that challenges you to your core and begins to shift your paradigm. The Peace Giver, by James Ferrell has become one of those books for me. I’m on my 2nd time reading it in the course of a week. I’m sure that many people have read it and...
by Jason L | Nov 9, 2014 | Featured, Feminism, Old Testament, Temple |
A recent visit to the temple reinforced for me the idea that Paul got his parallel wrong: Christ is not the second Adam but the second Eve. “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive,” Paul wrote (1 Cor. 15:22). But, considering our modern...
by Emily Spencer | Sep 17, 2014 | Agency, Atonement, Book Reviews, Charity, Compassion, Disability, Faith, Faith Crisis, Featured, Forgiveness, Humanity, Mental Health, Reviews, Sacrament, Symbolism, Truth |
Ezra and Hadassah: A Portrait of American Royalty is the gripping account of author Heather Young’s tumultuous childhood at the abusive hands of those into whose care she was entrusted, both her foster and Latter-day Saint adoptive parents. With remarkable courage,...
by L Thomas | Sep 10, 2014 | Apologetics, Atonement, Featured, Repentance |
I’ve wrestled with many questions about the Atonement: “Does the Atonement work?” “Is it real?” “Can it work for me?” Obviously I cannot prove (or disprove) that the Atonement works in any kind of eternal or...
by Miguel Barker-Valdez | Jul 16, 2014 | Atonement, Featured, Old Testament, Sacrament, Theology |
Tiamat and the Atonement One of the oldest creation myths is that of the Enuma Elish, in which the Babylonian God, Marduk, fights the sea serpent, Tiamat (this type of divine battle is called a theomacy). In this story, Tiamat represents chaos. The god, Marduk,...
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