[…] That is, causal relations are universal (the “universality criterion”) and given prior events, one and only one world is possible (the “necessity criterion”). Both of these commitments are controversial and neither has been shown […]
[…] found to do some doctoring up, some jazzing up, some cleaning up as we present ourselves to the world. Most of us struggle to ap pear as better than we feel we really are—just as […]
[…] and 23 years old, who proselytized for 1.5 or 2 years in 168 countries all over the world. How ever, the LDS church is more typically a Western Hemisphere church. Al though it claimed […]
<i>Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 19–38</i><br>In the years since this event, I’ve found that there are a number of members who believe that evolution is a doctrine of the devil.
[…] and value learning, but church leaders have predicted that church members would surpass the rest of the world in their scholarly and artistic accomplishments. President John Taylor exclaimed, You will see the day that […]
[…] a process than a one-time event. The same is true with LDS enculturation, or acceptance of this American-based church by other cultures as a legitimate part of their societies. Both conversion and enculturation require […]
[…] and every one, meticulously monitoring the comings and goings of the human race? Not just in this world but worlds without number? Every fallen follicle accounted for? Or was the monitoring more like wearing […]
[…] I smoked and studied the lace drapes on the windows behind him. Unlike Jonas who covets the world’s beautiful artifacts, I am simply amazed that the living-who-will-die go to such efforts to create it […]
[…] Riess, “Forty Years On, Most US Mormons Still Believe the Racist Priesthood/Temple Ban Was God’s Will,” Religion News, June 11, 2018, https://religionnews.com/2018/06/11/40-years-later-most-mormons-still-believe-the-racist-priesthood-temple-ban-was-gods-will/. Howard A. Christy, “Open Hand and Mailed Fist: Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah, […]
[…] certain corrupt ideas. It didn’t have to be this way, of course. One can easily imagine a world where Mormonism refuses to recognize the authority of other churches but nevertheless maintains that truth can […]