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"Strangers In A Strange Land": Assessing The Experience Of Latter-Day Saint Expatriate Families, James A. Toronto

BYU Studies

The word expatriate is derived from Latin ex, meaning out, and patria, meaning fatherland. In a broad sense, an expatriate is defined as anyone living outside his or her native land. Prominent scriptural expatriates include Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses, Lehi and his family, the Apostle Paul, and Moroni. In a sense, all of us are spiritual expatriates with plans and hopes of ultimately returning to our home of origin.

The Secret Message Of Jesus: Uncovering The Truth That Could Change Everything. By Brian D. Mclaren, Gary Gillum

BYU Studies

Brian D. McLaren. The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth That Could Change Everything. Nashville, Tenn.: W Publishing Group, 2006.

Deaf Catholic Newsletter, Advent-Winter 2006

Deaf Catholic Newsletter

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Philapelphia, PA

Deaf Catholic Newsletter Finding Aid

The "Life & Miracles" Of St. John Fisher College Alumna, Allison Faluotico

Verbum

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"I graduated from Fisher with B.A.’s in Religious Studies and Sociology. After graduating from Fisher I had planned on attending Buffalo State College for graduate school but changed my mind that summer. I ended up staying in Rochester for a few months and looking around for a job (I must admit, however, I did not put much effort into this.) That fall I decided to move back to my hometown to see if I could find a job in or around the NYC area. Unable to find my ideal …

Joshua 6:15-21: Exploring The Deeper Meaning Of The Herem, Mike Wegman

Verbum

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"In the Old Testament, there are a number of books that contain violent stories that may shock the casual reader. Some of these stories seem to encourage not only the slaughtering of enemy armies, but also the murder of innocent civilians. The book of Joshua, in particular, contains a number of such tales. In chapters six through eleven of this book, God instructs Joshua and his followers to obliterate dozens of enemy armies, and subsequently orders them to lay their towns to waste. Joshua and his followers put to …

The "Beautiful Death" In The Smith Family, Samuel Brown

BYU Studies

Despite thoughtful attempts by Douglas Davies to situate death at the center of the Mormon “culture of salvation,” the exploration of death in early Mormonism has been somewhat limited to date, particularly as it relates to the Smith family and the earliest years of Mormonism. Against this relative silence stands the testimony of the Smiths themselves, who were deeply concerned with questions of mortality. Joseph Smith was unequivocal on this point during his 1843 funeral sermon for James Adams: “All men know that all men must die. What is the object of our coming into existence then dying and falling …

Sisterz In Zion. Directed By Melissa Puente, John M. Murphy, Leslee Thorne-Murphy

BYU Studies

Sisterz in Zion. Directed by Melissa Puente. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University; American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, 2006.

Junius And Joseph: Presidential Politics And The Assassination Of The First Mormon Prophet. By Robert S. Wicks And Fred R. Foister, Susan Sessions Rugh

BYU Studies

Robert S. Wicks and Fred R. Foister. Junius and Joseph: Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2005.

Joseph Smith: The Making Of A Prophet. By Dan Vogel, Kyle R. Walker

BYU Studies

Dan Vogel. Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2004.

Book Notices, Kelsey Lambert, Josh E. Probert, David A. Allred

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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L'Islam En Termes Chrétiens : Quand L’Aventure Ambiguë « Croise » Pascal Et Saint Augustin, Mbaye Diouf

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

If it is recognized that The Ambiguous Adventure is one of Africa’s most studied texts, it should also be noted that most analyses of Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s novel are general sociological commentaries on a mythologized Africa or on a society that is caught in the snares of its own mythic “values.” These commentaries often forget that the text is also the passage through a history that was imposed on Africa, and one which the writer tries to interpret in his own way. If Kane’s text plunges into the Christian faith by invoking Pascal and Augustine, it is in order to …

Alhamdulilah: The Apparently Accidental Establishment Of The Church In Guinea, Kendall Moss

BYU Studies

As I neared completion of my first assignment with the U.S. State Department, a two-year tour in Rio de Janeiro, the department’s personnel officers determined that my two years in Rio would be best balanced by an equal amount of time in Conakry, Guinea. Although I had some interest in Africa, I had never given much thought to doing a tour in Guinea. Like a newly called missionary, I quickly began to study about a country I would later come to love.

Charting The Future Of Brigham Young University: Franklin S. Harris And The Changing Landscape Of The Church's Educational Network, 1921-1926, J. Gordon Daines Iii

BYU Studies

Education is deeply embedded in the theology and religion of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Formal educational systems began to develop soon after the establishment of the Church in 1830. The first of these formal systems was the School of the Prophets, established in Kirtland, Ohio, in December 1832 to prepare selected members for missionary work. Nearly a decade later an attempt was made to establish a university in Nauvoo, Illinois. After the move to Utah, the Church continued its involvement in formal education with the establishment of “common schools, stake academies, and colleges and universities.” The …

The Archive Of Restoration Culture, 1997-2002, Richard Lyman Bushman

BYU Studies

When I first began work on Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling in 1996, I realized that reconstructing the cultural environment of the Prophet would be one of my largest tasks. I could scarcely conceive how to go about probing the huge quantities of sermons, newspapers, journals, pamphlets, books, artworks, and private diaries that possibly bore on the restoration of the gospel in the 1820s through the 1840s. Yet the culture of that period bore directly on the success of the young church under Joseph Smith’s leadership. People would never be able to grasp theological ideas that were entirely foreign to …

The Imprisonment Of Martin Harris In 1833, Mark B. Nelson, Steven C. Harper

BYU Studies

With editorial work on Joseph Smith’s legal papers in full swing, the attention of several attorneys, historians, archivists, and law students has turned increasingly to American legal culture in the 1820s through the 1840s and specifically to cases involving Latter-day Saints. At the same time, Mark Nelson recently discovered court documents of a trial involving Martin Harris in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. These brief documents add considerable information to an otherwise little-known chapter in the life and ministry of Martin and Emer Harris. Readers also learn about early Mormon missionary adventures generally.

Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency Of Spencer W. Kimball. By Edward L. Kimball, Gary L. Hatch

BYU Studies

Edward L. Kimball. Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005.

In All Their Animal Brilliance. By Lance Larsen, Casualene Meyer

BYU Studies

Lance Larsen. In All Their Animal Brilliance. Tampa, Fla.: University of Tampa Press, 2005.

Songs For Support Concert Benefits Lebanese Refugee, Bonnie Mclean

Lake Union Herald

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Fortin Appointed New Dean Of The Seminary, Beverly Stout

Lake Union Herald

No abstract provided.

The Marian Library Newsletter: Issue No. 52, University Of Dayton. Marian Library

Marian Library Newsletter

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Living With Other Gods: My Mom, My Dad, My Grandmother, And Me, Timothy Crumley

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"The notion of “living with other gods” applies to my family. Living with other gods means that people with different beliefs live with one-another peacefully. When applying this notion to my family, one can relate it best to the religious relations that are between my father and me and that are of between my mother and grandmother. My name is Timothy Crumley; I’m 14 years of age, I’m in the 9^th grade, and I attend a collage-prep school called The Harley School. My father seems to …

Reformed Worship (Rw) 82 - Lent / Easter (December 2006), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Features

A New Commandment by Christine Jerrett, Susan Woodhouse, and members of Grace United Church....4

Ears That Hear and Eyes That See by Elizabeth Steele Halstead....16

Visualizing the Passion by Debbie Pizzeck....18

Liturgical Footwashing by Lyn Reith....19

He Is Risen Indeed by Angela Taylor Perry....22

Introducing Lent by Lillian Eiten....28

Using a Lenten Triad....29

Lift Up Your Hearts by Daniel R. Hyde....33

In Christ Alone by David Rylaarsdam....36

The Not-So-Comfortable Pew by Stephen J. Matteucci....42

In Jesus' Name by Philip Stel....44

Departments

Editorial: A Liturgical Time Warp by Joyce Borger …

Religion And Semiosphere: From Religious To The Secular And Beyond, Rajka Rush

Dissertations

Religion is a system of structural ideas that involve the natural ability of the mind to engage itself into the process of unlimited semiosis which can be defined as an existential openness of one's consciousness to the universe as a system. This primary religious consciousness becomes limited by language, symbolic, and cultural constraints. The religious semiotic space is a sub-cultural system open to culturally and cross-culturally encoded idioms and concepts. These cultural potentials are interpreted and settled by the religious exegesis expressed in the behavioral patterns of the symbolic actions that reflect a specific worldview of the closed community controlled …

The Holy Tent In The Wilderness

Shabbat Shalom: A Journal for Jewish-Christian Reconciliation

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The Effects Of Existential Attribution And Religiousness/Spirituality On Well-Being In Hiv Patients, Amy N. Huggins-Rieke

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

HIV is a serious illness that has received considerable attention in research literature addressing the implications of religiousness/spirituality on coping with this illness. Past research indicates that an individual's level of guilt over having contracted HIV is associated with feelings of stigmatization and suffering, which can influence his 111 or her wellbeing in coping with the illness. The current study seeks to investigate the relationship between feelings of responsibility for illness (attributions) and engagement with religiousness/spiritual meaning as a coping resource. It is hypothesized that the use of existential attribution will moderate the relationship between an individual's religiousness/spirituality and his …

Lewis' "The Gospel According To John And The Johannine Letters" - Book Review, Paul N. Anderson

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

Review of Lewis, Scott M. The Gospel according to John and the Johannine Letters New Collegeville Bible Commentary 4 Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2005. Pp. 142. Paper. ISBN 081462863X

Moloney's "The Gospel Of John: Text And Context", Paul N. Anderson

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

Review of Moloney, Francis J. The Gospel of John: Text and Context Biblical Interpretation Series 72 Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. xv + 389. ISBN 0391042467.

31 | ‘En Esur (‘Ein Asawir) I: Excavatios At A Protohistoric Site In The Coastal Plain Of Israel, Eli Yannai

IAA Reports—Monograph Series of the Israel Antiquities Authority

‘En Esur is a large, multi-level protohistoric site with a sequence of settlements from the Neolithic, Early Chalcolithic, Late Chalcolithic periods and Early Bronze Age I. It grew up in an area of copious springs and rich alluvial fields in the northern Sharon Plain. A large-scale salvage excavation in 1993, and further excavations in 1999 and 2004, revealed exceptional architectural and material-cultural finds, including rich pottery, flint and groundstone assemblages.

States Of Grace. Directed By Richard Dutcher., Kent R. Bean

BYU Studies

States of Grace. Directed by Richard Dutcher. Provo, Utah: Zion Films, 2005.