Month: May 2025
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Preterism
I ran face first into a religious concept that I really should have suspected exists for a long time. Preterism is the idea that the Second Coming already occurred to the first generation of Christians. Mormonism puts a laser focus on the doctrine. Jesus appeared in the Americas and probably elsewhere after his resurrection. If…
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Literacy over Evangelism
I am not nor have I ever been a good evangelist. I am fully committed to the stance of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on moral agency. I can’t make choices for any of you and I’m certainly not in a position to tell people that they have to believe all…
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Orange Cream Coca-Cola
I’m sitting in the easy chair drinking an Orange Cream Coca-Cola. I started several theological arguments today. But they are with two people I have never met in real life. The theology in my head is not the theology of my hands. I change diapers, I cook food, and I wash laundry. Sometimes I help…
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Sleep or Beer?
I was trying to sleep in this morning. Danny called me and reminded me that it was my turn to buy beer. He’s right of course but I wish he hadn’t called so early to talk about it. He suggested a very cheap beer called Rolling Rock. But I’m buying so I’m going to get…
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The Harvest in Scripture
There always seems to be people harvesting in the scriptures. They harvest wheat, grapes, and olives. Sometimes the fields are ripe and sometimes they are wild. Sometimes the Lord of the vineyard hires workers. But what exactly are the workers harvesting? It doesn’t make sense that some people are the laborers in the field and…
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I want to be useful
I have never been a very industrious person. I’m a procrastinator. And I can’t go to problems because I don’t drive. So I struggle to feel like I’m pulling my weight for the sake of humanity. I’m online a lot which doesn’t feel like helping most of the time. People can’t eat or pay their…
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Three O’clock AM
I should not be awake and yet I am. I had a very fun day yesterday and it is just now beginning to wear off. I turned off my computer and all the upstairs lights but my own. And yet I type into my phone which switched to black and white at my bedtime two…
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