On a Philosophy of Marriage
February 3, 2025[…] necessarily in relation to others. I will use several contemporary thinkers to show how relation with others can be conceived, though I will use them to argue that we are who we are only […]
[…] necessarily in relation to others. I will use several contemporary thinkers to show how relation with others can be conceived, though I will use them to argue that we are who we are only […]
[…] of groups of believers trying to live God’s laws separating themselves from those who ignore the Lord’s directions. The Israelite flight from Egypt, the Book of Mormon migrations, and the record of separatist com […]
[…] first encountered death at age three when my infant brother, after only one day of life, succumbed to respiratory failure. I have few memories of the viewing, but do recall the delicate blue veins […]
<i>Dialogue 8.3/4 (1973): 43–73</i><br> Ever since his great synthesis, Darwin’s name has been a source of discomfort to the religious world. Too sweeping to be fully fathomed, too revolutionary to be easily accepted, but […]
[…] discourse, but now it would take singular effort. That morning, riding the fence to make sure his cattle couldn’t climb through and be lost in the higher reaches of the mountain, Howard looked down […]
America is currently in the midst of state-by-state political activism and judicial appeals to prevent the legalization of same-sex marriage. In 1996 the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated one example of the related effort to […]
[…] to say, however, that we understand all the processes at work in evolving populations, or that we can answer unequivocally all the detailed questions concerning life forms in the distant past. But such shortcomings […]
[…] a marriage partner, on the other hand, involves specific and not general criteria. After all, one person can only be married to one individual. The probabilities of a successful marriage are known to be […]
[…] 2010): 1–36</i><br>And in fact, what might it mean that God “used” evolution tocreate life’s diversity? Was this a choice for God among other al-ternatives? Do Wildman’s pessimistic conclusions hold for Mor-monism? Does evolution imply […]
[…] Angel and the Beehive: Mormonism in the 20th Century.” Paper presented at Beyond the Mormon Moment: New Directions for Mormon Studies in the New Century conference, Claremont, Calif., March 15, 2013. “The Family: A […]