Orthodoxy is the quality of conforming to established doctrine or dogma. Unfortunately, that which is orthodox is not necessarily truth. However, we as mortals tend to accept things as truth if they are deeply engrained in social norms and traditions. Thus, quite often we associate orthodoxy with truth without questioning it; and when something comes […]
Two recent occurrences at my school have opened my eyes to an interesting phenomenon taking place in the halls of academia. The phenomenon regards the stranglehold administrators have on the speech, or lack thereof, taking place on campuses throughout the country. The incidences at my school, which have received national attention, can be read about […]
This little debate was brought to me by Alan quite some time ago and apparently has been a topic of heated discussion throughout theological discourse.
So what of Judas? I won’t exhaust the debate within this post by mentioning all the circumstances surrounding his life, death and exaltation/damnation. I will say that I happen to loosely […]
It wasn’t until my mission that I discovered how much time and money other Christian religions spend on attacking the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I served seven months in Colorado Springs (home of Focus on the Family and dubbed the “Christian capital of the world”) and learned a lot about myself […]
A sunbeam, a sunbeam, Jesus wants me for a sunbeam teacher. Yes, that’s right. My wife and just got our new callings. We will now spend two-thirds of our three hour church experience handing out goldfish crackers and crayons (with no assurance as to which of the two will be eaten).
This, however, is no typical […]
Lest we fall away from our roots and into originality, We would like to introduce a little symposium we want to call “The Classics”. We foresee the symposium lasting anywhere from 2-4 months as “Classic” posts will be interspersed with our normal thoughtful postings.
What is a “Classic Post” you ask? Well […]
While reading Rough Stone Rolling, I came across an episode in Church history that I was unaware of: apparently just before the Book of Commandments (the first DC) was published, a rather large group of what I am going to call intellectuals, for lack of a better word, heavily criticized the Prophet’s vocabulary, grammer, […]
In my elders quorum class on Sunday, we were discussing the restoration through the eyes of Wilford Woodruff. Our teacher asked us what was so miraculous about Bro. Woodruff’s conversion to the gospel. Having recently covered that era in Rough Stone Rolling, I mentioned that despite all the visionaries, superstitions, visions, magic and other nonsense […]
We’ve recently been added to www.mormon-blogs.com. You can visit the site by clicking on the “LDS BLOGS” icon on the right hand side of this page just below the “Archives” Section and the “E-blogger” icon. Hopefully we can keep growing, if anyone has ideas or abilities that they can volunteer to help us prepare to […]
