[…] will be reflected in your attitudes and in your actions. We forgive you, for Christ’s sake, amen.”[ 6] Understandably, there also was some skepticism from those who wanted to see action that went beyond […]
[…] reason that the “born this way” language of the marriage equality movement has had so little effect on the Mormon population compared to others is that it directly contradicts very recent and revered theological claims.
[…] an interesting message with the assembled Saints—a message that contained, so far as I have been able to discover, the strongest agrarian sentiment ever formally expressed by a major Church leader in the whole […]
[…] cattle, “dogies,” they were called. They were stragglers, weak, underfed, undernourished, and gave little promise. You could buy them very cheaply, which is why Father bought a hundred of them. Father shipped these hundred […]
[…] 988 A.D., Prince Vladimir, ruler of ancient Kievan Rus’, brought Christianity to the Slavs. The apparent catalyst for his own conversion was a plea from Emperor Basil II of Constantinople. A renegade general had […]
Dialogue 39. 3 (Fall 2007):188–206 Others, including Wunderli, hold that the proposed chiasms in the Book of Mormon are not deliberate applications of the chiastic form and ascribe their chiastic structure to the ingenuity […]
[…] 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 […]