How can men and women of intelligence, integrity, scholastic prominence, and with acknowledged expertise, have such divergent views of the Book of Mormon and its origin? For example, take the diametrically opposed conclusions of two prominent anthropology Mesoamerican scholars, who, by the way, are friends. One, Michael Coe, is at least an agnostic, and the…
Category: People
Christmas Day, Joyce and I attended church with one of our daughter’s here in Spokane Valley. Also visiting was Wayne Gould. While I hadn’t met Wayne before, I quickly found out he was the son of my friend, William Gould, and after church we kept our families waiting a bit while we talked about his dad….
For 50 years, our sister-in-law, Kaye Terry Hanson, was at the top of Joyce’s and my best-friend-list, and for the last nearly a year, the three of us had daily morning scripture reading via telephone. Admittedly, our morning get-together was often mostly conversation mingled with scripture. Joyce’s oldest sister, Shirley, had been terminally ill a long…
Sometimes I tell full time missionaries today that the reason they have so many mission rules is that when I was a missionary 55 years ago, we didn’t! There’s more than a hint of truth to that. For example, on my mission we were on our own to find a place to live. No written guidelines….