Productive Ambiguity V

(Continuing from Bruce C. and Marie K. Hafen and previous post Productive Ambiguity IV) My piano teacher from my high school days was Reid Nibley, Hugh Nibley’s younger brother. Reid was a spiritually reflective but spiritually consummate artist. He taught me...

Productive Ambiguity IV. . . . The Head and Heart Paradox

Continuing from a previous post, Bruce & Marie K. Hafen taught: There are some natural tensions between faith and reason, which offer an instructive variation on the theme of tensions between early simplicity and complexity. As we search for the right relationship...

“He Will Give You Rest”

(Re-published and updated here. . . .) From Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Gaye Strathearn: ONE SCHOLAR OBSERVES THAT MATHEW 11:25-30 RECORDS  “perhaps the most important verses in the Synoptic Gospels.”  1 More specifically, Elder James E. Talmage...

(continued) Productive Ambiguity III

Continuing from a previous post, Bruce C. and Marie K. Haven wrote: The way many of our students had aligned themselves with only one of these principles illustrates today’s tendency to live in just one end of a bipolar world. At times we judge our Church...

“With God All Things are Possible”

From Robert L. Millet and his book “Talking with God”, “With God, all things are possible,” President Thomas S. Monson (deceased) reminded us. He explains that “prayer is the provider of spiritual strength; it is the passport to peace....

Insight into Who We Really Are

Elder Neil L. Anderson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles taught, , , ,: The Gospel of Jesus Christ gives us insight into who we truly are, why we are here on earth, how to continue along the covenant path, and where we can be for all eternity. We are sons and...

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