Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Monday, January 25, 2021

‘Good Man Jesus and Scoundrel Christ’ both spiritual and blasphemous

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An element that mars most religious fiction is that good and evil is established bluntly and quickly. Sunstone editor Stephen R. Carter has ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Book of Mormon Musical songs may be profane, but that profanity has heart

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  Originally published by StandardBlogs in 2012 . (Note: I never managed to see Book of Mormon Musical. But I still listen to the score ofte...
Sunday, October 4, 2020

Doubt, rather than knowledge is most compatible with faith

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  Michael Vinson, of Salt Lake City, a master’s graduate of the Divinity School of the University of Cambridge, has a fascinating essay in a...
Friday, August 10, 2018

LDS writer Carter’s essays exploit the tension between right and wrong

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There’s a furtive thrill in reading honest Mormon writing because we encounter characters, or better yet, real people — who aren’t clic...
Friday, June 22, 2018

Letter to a Doubter important essay from Mormon scholar Givens

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LDS author and scholar Terryl Givens’ “Letter to a Doubter” has been widely circulated since he presented the essay/lecture in a  speec...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Orson F. Whitney biography captures the contradictions of faith

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Orson F. Whitney, an apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for almost a quarter century in the early part of the 2...