Right here at the bottom of the I-15 Idaho/Utah Corridor.

I will tell you my story later.

Today, I am going to carefully wind my way up the corridor to Idaho exploring, learning, and sharing.

If you have been to the Ink & Blood exhibit in Idaho Falls, you also need to visit the Archives Room on the second floor of the McKay Library at BYU-I in Rexburg, Idaho.

The Special Collections and Archives Gallery presents The Scriptorium Collection.

I loved it!

I hope this is accurate.  Excited, I feverishly jotted things down.  Correct me if I am wrong.  But here is a list of items I saw.  I joyfully savored items 2, 7, 8, 9, 13, 26. (more…)

The Post Register in Idaho Falls carries two headlines:

“Romney building a lead”

“Brownback aide’s e-mail questions LDS faith”

Here is an excerpt from the second article:

Emma Nemecek, the southeastern Iowa field director for Brownback’s presidential campaign and a former state representative candidate, violated campaign policy when she forwarded the June 6 e-mail from an interest group raising the questions, the Brownback campaign said Sunday.

The e-mail requested help in fact checking a series of statements about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Among the statements:  “Theologically, the only things Christianity and the LDS church has in common is the name of Jesus Christ, and the LDS Jesus is not the same Jesus of the Christian faith,” and, “The LDS church has never been accepted by the Christian Council of Churches.”

“Sen. Brownback completely disavows himself on this and any personal attacks on religion,” said Brian Hart, a spokesman for the Kansas senator.  Hart said the campaign apologized to Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, once it learned of the e-mail”

Interesting.

I am happy for God’s work in poem’s life, but I am not happy how her pastor illustrates God.  How can you connect his explanation of God with the theology of John’s Gospel?  It seems that his modalistic view of God (not desiring to just zero in on him)  is prevalent among evangelical pastors, but I passionately assert that the human illustration does not do justice to the biblical revelation.

John’s Gospel speaks fully of the distinctiveness of the Father, Son, and Spirit. (more…)

I will be soon placing all these categories with their links in the sidebar of HI4LDS. 

Fundamentalist LDS:  Various sects

Reorganized Church LDS:  Community of Christ

Church LDS:  Official website, Newsroom, Deseret News, LDS Today, Meridian

Scripture focus for LDS:  Feast on the Word

Media LDS:  Michael Otterson

Scholarship LDS: FARMS Research

Apologetics LDS: FAIR, SHIELDS

Doctrinal Exploration among LDS:  Dialogue

Internet LDS: Mormon Archipelago, LDSelect, LDS Blogs, Planet LDS, About,

Sarcastic LDS scourge: SnarkerNackle

Catholic focus on LDS: Defensor Veritatis

Ecumenical evangelical conversation with LDS:  Mormon and Evangelical Conversations, Morehead’s Musings

Cultural LDS:  Sunstone

Post-LDS:  postMormon

Ex-LDS upholding evangelical doctrine:  The Reformed Baptist Thinker

Evangelical counterpoint to LDS:  Mormon Coffee

Yesterday’s front page of the Post Register carried the picture and news.

The caption under the front page picture says, “We are not anti-Mormon.  It is not our intent to belittle others,”  says Jeff Ricks of PostMormon.org, seen in front of one of his organization’s billboards on the north edge of Idaho Falls along U.S. Highway 20 on Tuesday. (more…)

For our fifteenth wedding anniversary, Kristie made reservations last week for one night at The Cutthroat Inn situated at the base of the Heise foothills alongside the South Fork of the Snake River.

The place is a paradise. Our friendly hostess, Kathy, tucked us away in the Moose Cabin, decorated with cozy moose décor – little stuffed moose on a nook, iron moose coat hanger, moose wall border, and moose lamp shades. I felt right at home. A famous, oak framed print of “A Walk In the Woods” by Steven Lyman hung on the walls.

Plopping down and laying back on one of the pine beds, I stared up at the vaulted tongue and groove ceiling and then glanced over at the walls, made of twelve-inch diameter logs. Wow. The owners even had a clock made out of stone slate anchored to the wall. (more…)

“Oh how much we make of ourselves in the culture in which we now live, and yet how little do we know either of ourselves or, surely far, far less, of God. What should be hitting us with the force of a sledge hammer by this point in our study is how the doctrine of God and his providence, at every turn, extols God’s magnificence and glory and supremacy, and yet how the very human extolling of these truths—or better, of the God of whom they are true—results not in our diminished worth or weakened happiness, but in just the opposite. Our pretense of self-esteem is replaced with the infinitely full treasure store of God’s worth, accessed through God-esteem. Our dead-end routes of self-directedness are replaced with unsurpassable wisdom and knowledge that leads unfailingly to life and goodness and peace and joy. So, when we turn from the deceptive emptiness of self-satisfaction and God-empowered attainment, we realize that by acknowledging our bankruptcy and God’s endless riches, we now trade in our poverty for never-ending wealth. Yes, indeed, God’s glory is our good. We praise and honor him who alone is worthy, for granting us the unspeakable privilege of this relationship with him. We do so with deep and sincere gratitude, respect, love, awe, and wonder. How great is our God, and how wondrous it is to be in relationship with him” (160).

– God’s Greater Glory by Bruce Ware

As usual, Jacob shares some LDS interpretation over at New Cool Thang about God that I totally disagree with.  Yet you must admit, he is always challenging your thinking.  Thanks also to LDS apologist, Blake Ostler.

I thought I would insert a few things by Bruce A. Ware from his book, God’s Greater Glory.  I like him because he is seeing some of the rich paradoxes that I am beginning to see in scripture about the God of all glory . . . ontological immutability but also relational mutability . . . timelessly eternal but also omnitemporal. (more…)