Troy Davis Archive

  • Mormon Matters Podcast 53: Mormonism and Capital Punishment

    Posted on September 28, 2011 | No Comments
    After our two posts re: capital punishment last week (The Worth of a Soul and Finding Peace), I asked Dan Wotherspoon to do a Mormon Matters podcast on Mormonism and the death penalty.   He just released it.   Dan, Tom Grover, and Ken Driggs […]

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  • Finding Peace

    Finding Peace

    Posted on September 22, 2011 | 4 Comments
    Forgiveness.   As babies and young children, we can’t help but forgive those that wrong us.   We have no choice…. we are too dependent.   But somehow along the path to adulthood (and independence) we lose that.   Maybe rightly so- I think there […]

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  • The Worth of a Soul

    Posted on September 21, 2011 | 11 Comments
    I grew up in Huntsville, Texas-the city where death row inmates are ultimately executed. Growing up, lots of people I knew worked for the Texas Department of Corrections, or “TDC” as locals refer to it. People at church often showed up on Sunday in prison […]

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