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The Savior counsels his followers to “[a]sk, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened” (Matt. 7:7-8). 

As a young boy I believed in these words with such steadfast sure ness that I actually formulated a list of wishes to bring before the Lord. The adversity of life, however, has taken that simple child-like faith and dashed it against the rocky shoals of reality.

I think about religion and psychology all the time. They call to mind a huge quandary based on what appear to be irreconcilable dichotomies: faith versus empiricism (the subjective versus the objective); sin or evil…

My dear granddaughter, Dolly Sri, I knew you would cause me problems the first time I held you in my arms. My anxiety became real when I saw you win your first gymnastic meet. It heightened as I watched you walk across the stage as a junior prom princess.

In 1980-81 Richard D. Poll, vice-president of Western Illinois University and former professor of history at Brigham Young University, was re searching, interviewing for, and writing a comprehensive biography of LDS apostle and member of…

One’s search for meaning usually leads to eschatological inquiry. More than mere theology, millennialism is a way of looking at world history and the destiny of humankind.[1] Beginning with Joseph Smith’s initial religious experience, the…