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Several years ago when I was participating in the Church’s Institute of Religion program, our instructor Mike King shared some very insightful concepts. The movie “The Passion of the Christ” was out and several people were debating on whether to…
There is a phrase I hear repeated every now and then among members of the church. Typically when there is an issue they come across that challenges their faith, they are able to either reconcile that issue one way or…
Some claim that the United States was founded by secularists, others claim that all of the founders were Christians that founded a Christian nation. Well what does all this mean? Are both these claims just opposite extremes?
The “Conversion Spectrum” in the Book of Mormon
Willing to give up
Cut a Covenant
The Greater and Lesser Arches
Jesus’ Teachings Concerning Stumbling Blocks
If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be cast…
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The Lord Almighty chose the weak things of this world. He could handle them. He therefore chose Joseph Smith because he was weak and he had sense enough to know it. – Wilford Woodruff
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David O. McKay Temple Address
An address on the Temple ceremony by President David O. McKay given Thursday, 25 September 1941, at 8:30am, Salt Lake Temple Annex (Manuscript in BYU Library Collections.)
Finality Robs Symbols of Their Meaning
This quote brilliantly sums up a critically important key to understanding symbols. “One explanation of a symbol that has been given does not preclude someone else seeing beyond that. Symbols were intended to expand our freedom of expression and feelings, not limit…
Isaiah Identifies the Latter-day Archtyrant
It always amazes me how we acknowledge the historical certainty of the rise and fall of nations in the past, but we don’t seem to think that the same fate is an eventuality today. Sure, men wanted to take over…
Persuasion vs. Force
Interpreters and Combinations
None Dare Call it Conspiracy
Jordan Peterson on Nihilism and Patterns
This is a really interesting take for a number of reasons. I’m planning on doing a podcast about some of this and the relationship between patterns and meaning.
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