Author: Jeffrey Thayne

Jeffrey Thayne The dictionary defines theocracy as “a system of government by priests claiming a divine commission.”1 That is, a

Jeffrey Thayne We have established in previous posts that governments need authority from God to govern. In the absence of

Jeffrey Thayne In my previous two posts (“John Locke and Primal Authority” and “Government by the People“), I have claimed

Jeffrey Thayne In my post “John Locke and Primal Authority,” I quoted Joseph Fielding Smith and John Locke, who both

Jeffrey Thayne In my post “Ecclesiastical and Government Authority,” I discussed the importance of priesthood authority in conducting the affairs

Jeffrey Thayne Latter-day Saints agree that a church must have authority in order to be valid before God. But what

Jeffrey Thayne One goal of the natural sciences is to discover regularities in observable phenomena that allow us to predict

Jeffrey Thayne Terry Warner, in a lecture given at the BYU Women’s Conference in 2006, said, “It is not the

Jeffrey Thayne Terry Warner, in his book Bonds That Make Us Free, said: We are constantly receiving signals from others

Jeffrey Thayne I was recently rereading Mere Christianity and found a passage that eloquently expresses an idea I hinted at