Sister Elizabeth Johnson accepted an award on Friday night (Aug. 15) from the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the umbrella organization for most of the 50,000 Catholic nuns in the U.S.
This has been the Achilles heel of pacifism for me. It’s the realization that in the end, everyone looks for relief from suffering. When people are pressed to the end and have no hope of saving themselves, they scream for others to rescue them. The reality of self-preservation has kept the human species alive.
I have heard of game theory being used in theological discussions to describe certain characteristics of God, and though this is a very interesting idea, it is not what I am concerned with at the moment.
A new online essay by the LDS Church says its Book of Abraham is inspired scripture but perhaps not a literal word-for-word translation of ancient Egyptian papyrus scrolls by the faith’s founder, Joseph Smith.