This is part of an ongoing project to articulate and clarify the principles described in the Latter-day Saint Radical Orthodoxy manifesto. The radical orthodoxy manifesto is a declaration of loyalty — loyalty to the living Christ, His Restored Church, and the men and women He has commissioned to administer, teach, warn, and guide this community. It is […]
This is part of an ongoing project to articulate and clarify the principles described in the Latter-day Saint Radical Orthodoxy manifesto. Our ideas for Radical Orthodoxy were in part inspired by observing the evolving church described in the Book of Mormon. In that ancient record, each generation faced new challenges to their faith for which the solutions […]
I’ve been pondering the past couple days. I’ve read that our political affiliations are better predictors of our moral worldviews and priorities than our religious affiliations. It turns out that our political tribes have a stronger influence on our moral assumptions than our religious communities. In retrospect, it almost seems obvious, but I don’t know […]
We are in the midst of a major political realignment. A faction of conventionally conservative Latter-day Saints find Donald Trump’s rhetoric and personal conduct disturbing enough that they are planning to vote for Joe Biden this fall. I sympathize with them, and have no plans to vote for Trump either. Nothing I say here should […]
One thing I’ve been observing lately is that having access to divine truth, divine authority, divine wisdom does not make us immune to error. I’ve encountered a number of people who are humble, loving, compassionate, intelligent, discerning, and yet who seem completely wrong-hearted and wrong-minded on a host of various issues. For example, I know […]
There are seven tribes of Lehi: The Nephites, the Jacobites, the Josephites, the Zoramites, the Lamanites, the Lemuelites, and the Ishmaelites. These tribes stem all the way from Lehi, who — acting in the role of Father Jacob — gave seven blessings to his posterity. Jacob writes: Now the people which were not Lamanites were […]
When asked, “How can we know the truth?” Christ answered, “I am the way, the truth, and the light.” What if we take this seriously? If we see truth as a person, instead of as a set of ideas, how does this change the way we think about our faith?
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When asked, “How can we know the truth?” Christ answered, “I am the way, the truth, and the light.” What if we take this seriously? If we see truth as a person, instead of as a set of ideas, how does this change the way we think about our faith?
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