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Photo: Sow a Crayon, Reap a Masterpiece Why wait for a miracle when you can color one? Bring the brightest, most unwavering smiles in television history to life. Fair warning to all artists: You will need to purchase an extra box of “Titanium White” just to get through the dental work on page four. Click…
The Answer Before the Question Moroni 10:4–5, the Architecture of Spiritual Certainty, and Why a Christian Should Not Take the Test ❦ ❦ ❦ I. Introduction: The Doorstep and the Question Two young men in white shirts and dark ties stand on a porch in Mesa, Arizona. They are nineteen, perhaps twenty. They have been…
A Narrative Theological Survey of the Sixty-Six Books He Is the Theme: The Christ-Centered Architecture of Holy Scripture • • • Introduction: The Stranger on the Road Two men walked west from Jerusalem on the first Easter afternoon, and they walked in the wrong direction for the right reason. Their hope had died three days…
Does the Bible Alone Contain the “Fullness” of the Gospel? A Point-for-Point Examination of the New Testament, Historic Christian Teaching, and the Book of Mormon â—† â—† â—† Introduction: A Farm Boy and a Family Bible Sometime in the spring of 1820, according to the account he dictated years later, a fourteen-year-old boy in Manchester…
Image: An AI-generated image imagines a group of handsomely dressed lawyers frantically digging a hole near an LDS temple to find archeological evidence against brand infringement. Friends of John Dehlin Want to Know. Furthermore, Was The Lawsuit Obtained By Revelation? Twenty Years of Silence, the Manufacture of “Confusion,” and the LDS Church’s Case Against Mormon…
Photo: This image shows Jacob Hansen channeling his inner Justin Martyr, minus that whole beheading by the Roman prefect Rusticus. Hansen is a Latter-day Saint businessman, father of four, seminary teacher, youth-football coach, surfer, hunter, sailor, Jiu-Jitsu enthusiast, and operator of Thoughtful Faith—a channel apparently founded on the premise that a sufficiently busy man can…
An Essay in Historical and Literary Criticism I. The Room With No Curtain There was no curtain. That single fact, so easily lost in two centuries of argument, is where any serious inquiry into the Book of Mormon must begin. In the spring of 1829, in a farmhouse in Fayette, New York, a twenty-three-year-old man…
Claude AI summary of Mormon Stories podcast “How the Book of Mormon was Composed” Ep. 1615 Source Program: Mormon Stories Podcast, Episode 1615 — “How the Book of Mormon was Composed,” installment ten of the LDS Discussions series. Participants: John Dehlin (host); Mike of LDS Discussions (guest); Douglas Stilgoe, known online as “Nemo the Mormon”…
When exegesis is not your fortĂ©. A sermon circulating in Presbyterian circles argues that Jesus committed an ethnic slur in Matthew 15:26, was corrected by the Canaanite woman, and repented by widening his mission — all on the premise that being wrong is not the same as being sinful. This essay dismantles that argument on…
A Theological and Practical Examination of Koinonia in the Modern Church Introduction: Eleven Minutes Stand in the back of almost any evangelical church in America on a Sunday morning and time the emptying of the sanctuary. In most congregations it takes about eleven minutes. The benediction is pronounced, the instrumentalists play something warm and unhurried,…