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Image: A profound AI revision of the original image displayed in the Salt Lake Tribune: “Even carved in immutable white marble, a moment of divine second-guessing over the current lineup is unmistakably etched into the Savior’s posture.” Called by Whom? The Latter-day Saint Apostleship Measured Against the Twelve Christ Chose ❦ ❖ ❦ I. Introduction:…
The Nursery and the Decree: What Predestination Does With the Children Who Never Grew Up I. A Question Asked From the Graveside John Owen, the greatest theological mind England produced in the seventeenth century, fathered eleven children. Derek Thomas, recalling the fact in a Ligonier interview, notes that ten of them died in infancy —…
A critique of the Mamdani administration’s 2026–27 generative artificial intelligence policy for New York City Public Schools, written from the standpoint of a career in technology education and integrative STEM. ◆ ◆ ◆ I. A Policy Announced Eight Days Before the Bell On September 2, 2026 — eight days before the first day of classes — Mayor…
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 ◆ ◆ ◆ 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…