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Amazing Grace

By Robert A. Rees  Robert A. Rees teaches Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union and the University of California Berkeley. He has just completed a play on Emerson and his circle and is compiling a collection of his essays on the Book of Mormon. He can be reached at bobrees2@gmail.com.     There is no …

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Glenn Beck: Rough Stone Roaring Part II

Continued from Glenn Beck: Rough Stone Roaring Part I A Civil Society? I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness. —William Penn42 You can turn on the television and see people who claim expertise that they don’t possess. And I say that, because the kind of expertise we need is not a facile …

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Glenn Beck: Rough Stone Roaring Part I

by Robert A. Rees Illustrations by Jeanette Atwood Through anger, the truth looks simple. —Jane McCabe1 It must be a decisive rule of every Christian fellowship that each individual is prohibited from saying much that occurs to him. —Deitrich Bonhoeffer2 The “Real” Glenn Beck Ever since learning that Glenn Beck had joined the Mormon Church, …

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