“The Book of Mormon includes a history of an ancient people who migrated from the Near East to the Americas.” So opens the new official statement on “Book of Mormon Geography” from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Today has been a very busy and rather long day. Still, in stolen moments, I’ve been watching a small handful of overeager critics of the Church with amusement. They’ve been peering desperately at the distant horizon, hoping... Read more
New Testament Notes 73-74
Matthew 7:15-20 Compare Luke 6:43-45 These verses contain one of the most manifestly useful rules in scripture. Sound religious teaching should have positive implications in day-to-day life. Obviously, of course, any particular religious individual may be inferior, in terms of behavior, etc., to some particular irreligious or theologically-different individual. And especially so at any particular time. I’m talking in the aggregate, of overall tendencies. Of communities over time. And, of course, any specific... Read more