I also suspect, and the title of the blog has always suggested that Americans are primarily consumers of products – that our other pre-political bonds or identities are overwhelmed by our identities ...

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There was a time that I would have traded my church membership for a “mess of pottage.” In this particular case, the pottage I wanted to exchange for church was 5 pounds of high explosives. I had ...

We shake our heads in disbelief and disgust when we read of Esau selling his birthright for a mess of pottage (Genesis 25:29-34). “What a shortsighted fool”, we think. But Orem residents and leaders ...

The Bible, in particular the Old Testament shared by Christians and Jews, provides much of the basis for our moral compass. Genesis tells how Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of soup: ...