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NewsBusters: On MS NOW, Actor Morgan Freeman Compares Modern US to Nazi Germany As Freeman appeared to promote the series The Gray House about a group of Southern women who spied for the Union during the American Civil War, host Lawrence O’Donnell brought up the time Freeman read the final message of civil rights icon…
Jesus casts out the devils. Artist: Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Engraver: W. Am[l?]and, inscribed lower left. Source: Die Bibel in Bildern, Plate 191. Mormon Apostleship. In Christian theology and ecclesiology, the apostles, particularly the Twelve Apostles (also known as the Twelve Disciples or simply the Twelve), were the primary disciples of Jesus according to the…
What Scripture, History, and Archaeology Reveal About the Church Christ Never Lost The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon church, was founded on several fundamental claims about the state of Christianity in the early 19th century. Central to Mormon theology is the assertion that Joseph Smith was called by…
CNET.com: This AI Tool Doesn’t Help With Homework. It Does It for You A new AI tool called Einstein is pushing the boundaries of what automation in education looks like. Created by the startup Companion, Einstein does more than generate answers to homework questions. It logs directly into a student’s Canvas account and completes coursework…
Photo: A lifelike image by Google Gemini depicts the Mountain Meadows Massacre — the September 11, 1857, slaughter in which a militia force composed entirely of Latter-day Saint settlers and allied Paiute Indians murdered approximately 120 emigrant men, women, and children of the Baker-Fancher wagon train at Mountain Meadows in what is now southern Utah….
Photo: Behold the ultimate heavenly realm. With its gleaming white spires, peaceful waters, and crowds ascending in white gowns. This is Google Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro, imagining what The “Celestial Kingdom” might look like. THREE KINGDOMS, ONE QUESTION: What Does the Bible Teach About Heaven? A Scholarly Analysis of Latter-day Saint Afterlife Doctrine Introduction: A…
The Weight of the Past: Presentism, History, and the Danger of Judging The Dead by the Standards of the Living A Historical and Cultural Analysis There is an old Latin legal phrase—nunc pro tunc—that translates roughly as “now for then.” In courtrooms, it describes the retroactive application of a ruling. In the study of history,…
Pascal’s Gambit, Biblical Salvation, and the God Who Will Not Be Bargained With A Theological Essay I. The Wager Everyone Thinks They Know Blaise Pascal is among the most fascinating figures in the history of Western thought—a prodigy who had mastered Euclid by the age of twelve, revolutionized the mathematics of probability and combinatorics, designed…
The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on February 19, 2026 — his 66th birthday — marks the first detention of a senior member of the British royal family since King Charles I was executed for treason in 1649, thrusting the monarchy into its deepest legal crisis in modern history. Thames Valley Police arrested the former Duke…
A Scholarly Examination of the “Translation” of Ancient Egyptian Papyri Introduction: A Text Under Siege Have you ever wondered about the authenticity of the Book of Abraham, a foundational text in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)? Believed by some to be a direct translation of ancient Egyptian papyri by Joseph…