[…] was great sorrow in the chapel. But, as the years passed, his death became an abstraction. Now, over three decades later, after witnessing a fair amount of human suffering and death, both through personal […]
[…] Jesus and the sisters, one would expect that he would encourage women to be fully educated in order to serve fully. One re members nineteenth century Mormon women gaining doctor’s degrees in the east, […]
[…] The sages believed in the goodness of created life and that one could find (or impose) an order on one’s experiences which would allow a prosperous, full life. Opti mistic (at least in the […]
<i>Dialogue 33.4 (Winter 2001):127–173</i><br>Upon an initial and cursory reading, the book appears to be a simple morality play. A zealous purveyor of an unusual gustatory selection hawks his wares to an Everyman, whose initial […]
[…] be able to eliminate evil. So why should there be any evil? This problem is, by far, the most discussed subject in the philosophy of religion. In this paper, I argue that rejecting the […]
Robert Nisbet defines the idea of progress as the notion that mankind has advanced in the past from barbarism and ignorance, is now advancing, and will continue to advance through the foreseeable future. It […]
I hope I’m not extending the metaphor too far, but it seems apparent the field is less white and more colorful as the church moves into the twenty first century. Most church members are […]
[…] out of it.” The first wife further explained: “that some of our people enter into that sacred order without due reflection or preparation and before the Lord has actually revealed it to them; and […]
[…] simply the profound experience of those who seek God. The man who blots out internal awareness in order to maintain to himself and to others the appearance of absolute certainty, who refuses to examine […]
A few years ago while visiting a used bookstore in the Old City (Gamla Stan) section of Stockholm, I asked the proprietor whether he had any materials about Mormons. He brought out a small […]