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The Revelation That Wasn’t a Commandment: How a Cup of Coffee Came to Guard the Gates of Mormon Heaven “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.” —…
LDS Vs Traditional Christianity – A study in comparative theology ❦ ❧ ❦ Introduction: A Tenth, a Temple, and a Trillion Dollars Few subjects reveal the distance between traditional Christianity and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as sharply as the doctrine of tithing. On the surface, the two traditions appear to agree:…
A Philosophical and Theological Essay ❦ ❖ ❦ I. The Terror and the Question More than three centuries ago, the mathematician and Christian apologist Blaise Pascal set down a confession that has haunted every thoughtful reader since: the eternal silence of the infinite spaces frightened him. He was not a man given to fright. He…
The Argument for God That Even Skeptics Take Seriously ❧ ————— ❧ ————— ❧ Introduction: A Question Written in Stone Stand at the rim of the Grand Canyon at first light, and you are looking at a question rather than merely a landscape. A mile of stratified rock falls away beneath your feet — sandstone,…
This Third-Party Gambit Runs Aground on American Political Arithmetic ❧ ✦ ❧ On the first day of July 2026, from a taxidermy-cluttered barn in the Maine woods, Tucker Carlson announced that he intended to break the American political system in two. Speaking to the Columbia Journalism Review, the former Fox News host framed his ambition…
26,000 Babies and a Booming Industry: The Real Scale of Birth Tourism A Standalone Companion to “Born of the Soil, or Born of Consent?” ❖ ❖ ❖ The Morning After: A Loss at the Court, a New Front at the Department The ink on the Supreme Court’s decision was scarcely dry. On the morning of…
Why Birthright Citizenship Rests on a Feudal Mistake ❖ ❖ ❖ Introduction: A Question the Founders Never Answered — Because We Never Asked It Rightly On June 30, 2026 — in the two hundred and fiftieth year of American independence — the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its decision in Trump v….
Image: Enhanced and colorized photo from the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Photograph by E.L.Goff. (Public Domain). He Could Not Read His Warrants — and He Never Got the Wrong Man ❦ ❖ ❦ Prologue: A Tramp on the Red River Road On a worn road in the…
A storytelling history of the desert farmers who built the largest irrigation network in ancient North America — and of the descendants who never truly left. circa 200 – 1450 A.D. ❖ ◆ ❖ The City That Rose From Ashes In the winter of 1867, a Confederate veteran and sometime prospector named Jack Swilling reined…
The Tangled Life and Tall Tales of Raymond Hatfield Gardner — “Arizona Bill” (1845–1940) ❖ ————❖———— ❖ On a gray winter morning in 1940, an old man lay dying in the charity ward of a San Antonio hospital. He had no money, no verifiable family, and, the Army insisted, no record of ever having served….