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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 —…
More Than a Gym: How Life Time Ocotillo Is Redefining Wellness in the Southeast Valley ❖ ❖ ❖ There is a particular hour in the Sonoran Desert when the heat finally breaks. The sun slides west behind the San Tan Mountains, the saguaros throw long shadows across the gravel, and the whole valley exhales. For…
A Narrative History of Brotherhood, Loss, and a Coffee Empire Built on Kindness The railroad tracks ran through downtown Grants Pass like a seam stitched into the floor of southern Oregon, and on a gray morning in 1992, two brothers wheeled a pushcart up beside them and waited to see whether anyone in the world…
Joseph Smith’s Golden Plates, and the Anatomy of a Repackaged Prophecy ❦ ❦ ❦ A Critical Theological Examination INTRODUCTION: A PROPHECY IN SEARCH OF A FULFILLMENT In the centuries since the Latter-day Saint movement first appropriated the twenty-ninth chapter of Isaiah as a foretelling of the Book of Mormon, no LDS apologist has felt obligated…
A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck offshore Sarangani province in Mindanao, Philippines, on Monday, June 8, 2026, at 7:37 AM Philippine Standard Time (PST). The epicenter was located approximately 32 km west of Maasim, Sarangani (or roughly 8–26 km southwest/west-southwest of General Santos City), at a depth of about 33 km according to PHIVOLCS (USGS reported…
The Ancient Fragment Called 4Q246 and What It Reveals About the Jewish World That Awaited the Messiah Imagine a young Bedouin shepherd tossing a stone into a forgotten cave on the cliffs above the Dead Sea—and hearing the crack of ancient pottery instead of bleating sheep. With that single throw in 1947, the most electrifying…
The Governing Principle: Sufficiency, Not Mere Necessity A summary and theological reflection Wesley “Wes” Huff is a Christian apologist, speaker, and scholar shaped by a global upbringing spanning Pakistan, the Middle East, and Canada. After overcoming a life-altering neurological condition at age eleven that left him temporarily paralyzed, he developed a perspective that deeply informs…
EARLY MORMON PERSONALITIES — INSTALLMENT XII Restoration’s Quiet Architect: A Christian Reckoning With Wilford Woodruff A Door Opens at Benbow Farm On the cool English morning of March 5, 1840, a thin, bearded American walked up the lane to a prosperous Herefordshire estate called Hill Farm and knocked on the door. He had not slept…
The Quiet That Carries: A Pastoral Plea for Sacred Music in a Loud Age ❦ ❦ ❦ Drive from Glendale to Apache Junction on any Sunday morning and walk into virtually any contemporary Christian worship service along the way. Before the first song begins, before the worship leader steps to the microphone, before a single…
EARLY MORMON PERSONALITIES — INSTALLMENT XI A Perfect Pack of Nonsense: John Taylor and the Theological Divorce of Mormonism from Christianity ❝ I would like to obey and place myself in subjection to every law of man. What then? Am I to disobey the law of God? Has any man a right to control my…