Programs for Peace
I came across some beautiful articles the other day as I was thinking over the quote featured at WarlikePeople.com. Here are some quotes from one one of my favorites- a conference address from Elder...
View ArticleSa’id and Packer
Boyd K. Packer’s “The Mantle is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect” (1981) is a talk I’ve often heard spoken of in hushed, insinuating tones–such that when I finally got around to reading it, I was...
View ArticleAm I a Satan-Supporting Raving Lunatic Engaging in Priestcraft?
Holding political positions outside the mainstream of Mormondom, I’ve found it interesting to see how people react as they try (or, in most cases, don’t try) to understand how I can argue that the...
View ArticleHow Latter-day Saints Can Create Zion
I was asked to speak at a women’s retreat about Zion, and specifically, how a Zion society looks and operates in contrast to a Babylonian/Gadianton society. My prepared remarks follow below. Throughout...
View ArticlePromoting Measures to Maintain and Strengthen the Family
In an October 1995 General Relief Society meeting, President Gordon B. Hinckley rose to the podium to deliver his remarks to the assembled women of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This...
View ArticleNo Manner of -ites
Note: this post originally appeared at latterdaystatesmen.com in 2009. One of my favorite quotes is Hugh Nibley’s: “I’m often called to declare one side or the other… Shiz or Coriantumr, wicked...
View ArticleMLK, Abraham, and Kierkegaard’s Paradox of Faith
So I teach MLK’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” to my freshman, mainly as an emulateable example of parallelism, amplification, and other effective rhetorical strategies. Of course, given the subject...
View ArticleMormons and Hindus in Sherlock Holmes
“A Study in Scarlett,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s debut Sherlock Holmes story, memorably finishes with roughly 5 chapters of salacious anti-Mormon caricatures. While Part I of “Scarlett” ends with...
View ArticleMatthew and the Mirror of Production
In the Biblical Book of Matthew, we have an example of what Jean Baudrillard termed a “primitive” society, one with an economy focused not on production, surplus, and scarcity, but on “taking and...
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