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More Than Mercy: Robert Alter on the Covenantal Weight of Hesed
The King James Version of the Bible has profoundly shaped the Latter-day Saint vocabulary, but its 17th-century translation choices sometimes obscure the rich nuances of ancient Hebrew. One of the most misunderstood words in our scriptural lexicon is ?esed, famously rendered in the KJV as “mercy” or “lovingkindness.” But does this translation capture the ...

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Filet-O-Fish and Keeping Mormonism Weird
In honor of Anthropic’s collaboration with the Vatican, a ChatGPT-generated image of Dario Amodei eating a Filet-O-Fish, IYKYK.  As a group Latter-day Saints have this psychological drive for the ever-elusive mainstream acceptance. We’re generally known for being nice and orderly, if a little weird and on the wrong side of the sociocultural elites. We have a form of hippne...

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From the Archives: Letters to a Mormon Pioneer
Whenever you produce a book, you will inevitably reach a point where you have to edit out something dear to you, but which isn’t going to be as important to someone else or the book as a whole. Sometimes referred to as “kill your darlings,” it’s a difficult process. I faced it while writing A Barn Full of Angels: The Spiritual World and Pioneer Journey of...

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Finding Meaning in Sacrament Meeting: Participation and Meaning in Church (Or What Did Church Lead You to Think Abou...
Perhaps the only true freedom that we have is the freedom of thought. We can choose how to react and what to think every day of our lives. I remembered the other day that this idea comes from Victor Frankl’s classic work, Man’s Search for Meaning. During the height of the holocaust, while trying to survive Dachau and Auschwitz, Frankl realized that how the inmates reacted to the...

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CFM 6/22-6/28: Thoughts and Poetry for "Hear Thou in Heaven Their Prayer”
Prayer is basically communication. We think of it as more than that, but the whole idea of prayer is to talk — specifically to talk to God and through it put ourselves in a state where we can hear Him. The whole point is to make contact and hear what we need to know. We have faith that He hears our prayers, even when we pray for things that we shouldn’t. But we also struggle whe...

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