Or should it be forgiveness versus retaliation? The definitions of the terms used in this article are taken from the Cambridge English Dictionary. Anger is “a strong feeling that makes you want to hurt someone or be unpleasant because of something unfair or unkind that has happened; to make someone
I received a wonderful Christmas gift from a dear friend a few days ago. First, I opened a lovely brass bell. Then a framed quotation from Alfred Tennyson’s famous song, Ring Out Wild Bells. She chose just these few ending lines: Ring in the valiant men and free,
Back in the early 2010s, I used to volunteer my eyesight to a woman who was in her late 80s and increasingly experiencing blindness. During our sessions, she would often say things like, “I wonder how this medicine affects my eyesight,” or “I wonder how memory loss works.” I would
1. Introductions to the classical doctrine of the Incarnation fall at the first hurdle when they begin by attempting to explain how two can be one, or how Jesus may be said to possess two things of various kinds—natures, wills, minds, personalities. Some of these options are wrong a priori
Why don’t we live more like Jesus taught and showed us how we should live? Among the reasons is the power that sin exercises in our lives. We may have been born again but we are not free of our old self, from our inclination to rebel against God.
By B.J. Funk – Before leaving for a lengthy trip, I drove into the crowded gas station. All of the pumps were filled, so I pulled my car to be second in line. Our cars were facing, head-to-head, because my fuel tank was on the opposite side from hers. No
A new video from the BYU Speeches YouTube provides insight into our search for clearer and more frequent personal revelation. “Receiving is an action word”—and that applies to the basketball court as well as to our spiritual lives. The post VIDEO: How We Can Receive What the Lord is Waiting
You know you’ve made it onto the broader American food landscape when one of the top five most searched recipes in the United States is a classic Jewish cookie, amiright? According to Google search trends of 2021, the fifth most searched recipe in the entire country was hamantaschen! Hamantaschen are