Tag: VS

REVELATION VS. INSPIRATION

Latter-day Saints often claim that they are guided by revelation from on high in a variety of ways, while still holding to a position implied in one interpretation of the First Vision that every other church is directed by the precepts of men. But how accurate is this assessment? How exclusive is the LDS claim …

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THE ARTS VS. THE INSTITUTION

The struggle between the arts and the LDS institution have frustrated, polarized, and ostracized many. In sharing the ways I work through these tensions, I will touch on everything from how the brain works, to the church as a “mass movement,” to the bases upon which the arts and institutions are formed. I will also …

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