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• Of Our Humanity

  
  Young Stranger — Authority: 411
  God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. (Job 27: 5) Jobs friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, argue with Job along two different lines. Along one line, they accuse Job of very specific sins, namely oppressing the poor and ignoring the pleas of the widow and the ...
  2 days ago

• Entertainment, Science, and Relativism

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  I have argued, in earlier posts , that there is a strange connection between entertainment and our ideas about knowledge. Specifically, people who grow up immersed in the imaginary worlds of entertainment seem to have a tendency to accept relativism, the idea that there can be different versions of the truth. It ...
  3 days ago

• Things Too Wonderful For Me, Which I Knew Not

  
  Young Stranger — Authority: 411
  My daily scripture reading has brought me to what is quite possibly my favorite book of the Old Testament, the Book of Job. Job is particularly appreciated by Latter-day Saints because of its references both to a pre-mortal existence and to the resurrection. But what is typically seen as Jobs greatest contribution ...
  1 week ago

• Tibetan art and manuscripts found in Himalayan caves linked to mythical “Shangri-La”

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, November 18 (ANI): A treasure trove of Tibetan art and manuscripts uncovered in “sky high” Himalayan caves in Nepal could be linked to the storybook paradise of Shangri-La.According to a report in National Geographic News, the 15th-century religious texts and wall paintings were found in caves carved ...
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• Do Unto Others

  
  Young Stranger — Authority: 411
  Ive been reading the Book of Esther, and am struck by themes that Ive never really noticed before. For one thing, the narrative offers an interesting commentary on the natural human tendency to exercise unrighteous dominion, and particularly mens tendency to exercise unrighteous dominion over their wives . At the ...
  2 weeks ago

• How the Scriptures Relate to the Issue of Homosexuality

  
  Young Stranger — Authority: 411
  In a recent guest post on Mormon Matters, I was asked to comment on my understanding of what the scriptures have to say about homosexuality. While the question was at least tangentially relevant to the topic of the post, I felt digressing into a full blown discussion of it would take us too far away from main purpose ...
  2 weeks ago

• Contact

  
  Young Stranger — Authority: 411
  Last night as a family we watched the movie Contact, starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConnaughy. I remembered not being particularly impressed by this film back in 1997 when we first saw it in theaters. When Glen suggested we watch it, I was sort of lukewarm about popping the videotape into the VCR. But by films ...
  3 weeks ago

• Neither to the Right Hand Nor to the Left

  
  Young Stranger — Authority: 411
  And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left. (2 Chron. 34: 2)There is an attitude common among believers that it is not possible to be "too" zealous for God. After all, God expects us to be perfect, and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sex In Orthodox Judaism

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 144
  Hirhurim writes : "I sent a few questions to Sara Diament, author of an important new book for parents titled Talking To Your Children About Intimacy: A Guide For Orthodox Jewish Parents ( link ). My questions are in bold. You can also find a review of the book in a recent issue of The Jewish Star ." They can’t ...
  4 weeks ago

• Provider/Nurturer

  
  Young Stranger — Authority: 411
  In August 2006, I had a spiritual experience while attending Church with my parents in Springville, UT. The Spirit very clearly told me that I needed to open myself to the possibility of having children. This seemed like an odd prompting to me at the time. When I came out back in the late 1980s, I simply assumed ...
  4 weeks ago

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