This article is one of the best I have read on the importance of the Bible to understanding literature and understanding the history of the United States. It make several primary points: 1)the Bible is the basis for most of our greatest literature 2)reading the the Bible is essential to knowing the history of the United States and 3)most teenagers today know very little about the Bible because 4)secular interest groups have succeeded in forcing Bible study from the schools.
Monthly Archives: May 2005
Admin: Down Time and New Server
We’re back! For those of you who do not know, last Friday (the 13th no less!) our previous hosting service banned us off of their system. According to them our site was crashing the shared server. We had no advanced warning and no access to our files or databases.
Cheating at the Game of Life
A few weeks ago we had a lesson from the David O. McKay Manual, on Overcoming Temptation. One of President McKay’s insights I found particularly interesting:
Every temptation that comes to you and me comes in one of three forms:
- A temptation of the appetite or passion;
- A yielding to pride, fashion, or vanity;
- A desire for worldly riches or power and dominion over lands or earthly possessions of men.
I have two responses:
The Narnia vs. Hogwarts smackdown
I just wanted to bring the upcoming film of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe to the attention of all of you LDS C.S. Lewis fans out there.
Guest Post: Have we become emotionally self absorbed and spiritually dependent?
By Soyde River
President Packer years ago, gave one of the most significant talks I ever read, about being spiritually self-reliant. Yet we live in a culture in which we are immersing ourselves in self-pity and becoming ever more emotionally dependent on therapy, on blaming others for our troubles, on contemplating our navel (and our vicissitudes), to the point where we are so self absorbed that we are constantly depressed.