African Wisdom Statue. This one was lifted straight from Gently Hew Stone, who (yes, that blog name comes most likely from a speech-to-text misunderstanding, owing to English pronunciation being a bit quirky) sometimes has cracked a joke or two about…
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About faith crises
Last weekend I was asked whether I had ever had a crisis of faith. This wasn’t the first time, but I had to ask for some room to define, to interpret the question. I will write about my chain of…
Tagged with: Crisis of Faith, Faith, Hyrum Smith, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Mormon, Mountain Meadow massacre, society, Sociology, Sunday School, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Posted in History, Mormonism, Politics, Religion, Society
Posted in History, Mormonism, Politics, Religion, Society
Destructive Nationalism in Support of Racism and Slavery (Nationalism Part 2)
I must confess that I calculated the headline to be provocative. I mean to provoke, but I also mean to clear my own thoughts a little. I do not think that it is a far-fetched thought that Nationalist ideas have…
Tagged with: Atlantic slave trade, Christianity, Jews, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Nation-State, Rome, Rudyard Kipling, Slavery, United States
Posted in History, Politics, Religion, Sociology
Posted in History, Politics, Religion, Sociology
Griping About Destructive Nationalism, Part 1
London has been on the news lately, with some good news for a change. Or at least feel-good, not rioting like last year. But let us not forget that the roots of the rioting are there, untouched, and with David…
Tagged with: Britain, David Cameron, Internationalism, London, Nation-State, Nationalism, Nazi, Nazi Party, Nelson Mandela, Olympic, Olympic Games, Otto von Bismarck, Soviet Union
Posted in History, Politics, Sociology
Posted in History, Politics, Sociology
Personhood, or Being a person
Some recent phenomena have prompted me to write this, in an attempt at a common sense-philosophical study of what the word person means, and how definitions of being a person–sometimes called personhood–have been expanded in recent centuries. I am doing…
Is Critical History forbidden to Latter-day Saints?
On another forum (in another language), we had some discussion about Critical History some while ago. In that discussion, I guess we all were very much for open history. The audience was somewhat self-selected for openness, as it is a…
Nonviolence vs. Pacifism, or How to solve unsolveable problems?
How to countenance a situation that can’t be countenanced? I started thinking about that again as I was reading the updated biography of Nelson Mandela by Anthony Sampson (updated by John Battersby, pub. 2011). First of all, there is the…
Tagged with: ANC, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Pacifism, South Africa, Walter Sisulu
Posted in History, Mormonism, Nonviolence, Politics, Sociology
Posted in History, Mormonism, Nonviolence, Politics, Sociology
Celebrating King James Bible
Some others may have read the August Ensign, and noted the pages dedicated to celebrating 400 years of King James Bible. I was sort of inspired to put my 2 cents about the Bible in ordered bits as if someone…
Tagged with: Bible, Biblical Inerrancy, Christianity, Joseph Smith, King James Bible, Protestant Reformation, Reformation
Posted in History, Language, Mormonism, Religion, Sociology
Posted in History, Language, Mormonism, Religion, Sociology
Finding the historical “Truth”
It’s interesting to notice how easy it is to misunderstand/misinterpret history. Historical “facts” arise from different sources, and it is the historian’s job to sift the documentary evidence and see what kind of balance comes out in the end. And…
Tagged with: Attitude, Founding Father, History, Knowledge, Opinion, Philosophy, Science
Posted in History, Mormonism, Sociology
Posted in History, Mormonism, Sociology
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