DID YOU KNOW: If you uphold the Scripture, and reject popular opinion, and embrace charity, you will NOT be popular. YES. Yes I did. :)
Exemplars of Christlike love in Scripture were regularly people who did not "prefer their people". The Good Samaritan is a parable championing those who love and sacrifice outside of acceptable societal/racial barriers. The most prolific apostle, Paul, built his career ministering to other peoples
He's typical of the hardshell Southern Baptists in rural areas of the South US -- totally unbending and knows more than god. I believe Franklin thinks his dad was god. He quotes his dad in the same way he quotes scripture. Graham once said a lot of people would like Putin to run for president USA.
The theme for next year's ATCRE National RE Conference has been announced - Scripture at the heart. Details on tickets soon. Add the date to your diary. #ATCRE2025
Do any of my fellow Latter-day Saints also spend too much time thinking about what a daunting task the church videos have? Namely, to give us meaning and emotion with very little story in a medium that thrives on story, and also without doing much that isnāt 100% included in scripture? Thatās hard.
"Is Britain obligated to conquer America because it was once part of the British Empire?" would be nuts, and Promised Land doctrine is just Manifest Destiny with a scripture to point at, this is one step from "we're allowed to literally enslave these people because they're Canaanites"
Itās easy to get discouraged because things havenāt turned out the way we planned. But the Scripture says, āOur dicks' ways are not our ways. They are higher and better than our ways.ā If youāre going to stay in peace, you have to let go of what you had in mind.
On sabbaths you shall rest your bones until they feel like your bones again, and brew the coffee dark and deep, and if in season there shall be apple fritters, and good hounds frolicking, and cats mewing for their own breaking of the fast, god save their uncanny souls. A scripture, somewhere.
This is a great observation and it allows Tamsyn to do one of the things she does best - wild swings in tone for comedic effect. Even the first line goes from an Old Testament scripture passage to a joke about porno mags in one (long) sentence.
