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An exercise in critical thinking and writing by Joey Day

Month: May, 2006

Eternal Companion: A few passages

This is the second post in a series about the Latter-day Saint doctrine of eternal marriage that began on May 27 with “Eternal Companion: Introduction”.
Jesus and the Sadducees
Most Latter-day Saints have already encountered one common objection to celestial marriage put forward by Evangelicals: the story of Jesus being questioned by a group of Sadducees who [...]

Eternal Companion: Introduction

I’ve mentioned before that I’m teaching a series of small group Bible studies on the subject of Hebrews. One of the study guides I’ve been using has an interesting title for chapter 7: “Eternal Companion”. If you know very much about Mormonism you probably know this phrase has special significance to Latter-day Saints. They hold [...]

My setup: Windows XP Tablet Edition

Dan Benjamin of “Hivelogic”:http://www.hivelogic.com recently wrote about “his software setup”:http://hivelogic.com/articles/2006/04/17/setup_part_ii. Even though he uses a Mac and none of the software he mentioned would be of any use to me, I was intrigued by the idea and inspired to write a similar post of my own. Actually, I’ve been working on this post for a [...]

The Message of the Quran

I wasn’t expecting a package in the mail today, but I was pleasantly surprised to find quite a heavy one in my mailbox. I was even more pleasantly surprised to find that it is a copy of the Holy Quran. You see, way back in October I requested a Quran from the Council on American-Islamic [...]