[…] billions of years is remarkable.[5] However, two developments of the twentieth-century unstitch Laplace’s vision of total determinism.[ 6] Quantum mechanics is one, and a better understanding of chaos (deterministic nonperiodicity) is the other. Neither […]
[…] officially dedicated “for the preaching of the Gospel and the building up of the Kingdom of God.”[ 6] It became part of the newly organized West Indians Mission on June 20, 1983, under the […]
[…] 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 a noninterventionist […]
The personal exit from any organization, especially those which are socially controversial, tends to produce a very specific type of narrative or story which gives an account of the individual’s experience within, and eventual […]
I have been deeply comforted that Dialogue exists, that it’s there as a strong voice for things that need to be said.” – Carol Lynn Pearson
[…] story [is to] show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again.”[ 3] This is what Anderson does in her depiction of Mormons living in Big Horn, Utah. Anderson […]
Stories are a binding force in families, a fact Mormons have known for a long time. A study at Emory University tried to identify what could strengthen families and help kids be more resilient. […]
Mormon history has always been a hot topic. From the earliest days of Church history over a century and a half ago, vastly divergent accounts of the origins and development of the Church of […]
[…] her, hanging straight from her shoulders, flat across her chest—she looked like a little girl. She bent over the skin, pulling her black hair sideways out of her eyes. “A snake,” she said. She […]
[…] of an old Tyrone Power movie, and during commercials I run next door to the laundromat to buy a couple of cans of diet Coke. Then I pop popcorn. After Tyrone Power, “I Remember […]