3 September 1984 Today my youngest child went to school all day for the first time. Every mother approaches this milestone with both anticipation and dread. I reached this point once before, six years […]
[…] of describing this crisis has to do with “scientific realism.” Here we might ask, What is the world? What kinds of things are in it? What is truth? Is there, in fact, any such […]
[…] diaries, and meeting minutes tells us that from the 1840s until as recently as the 1930s, LDS women served their families, each other, and the broader community, expanding their own spiritual gifts in the process.
[…] because of my religion. Well informed about LDS beliefs, he answered not a word. Intelligence Uncreated Most world religions, including traditional Christianity, begin with the idea that God existed alone. He then created all […]
[…] States—27 percent of total Church membership in 1990. In contrast, the United States had 56 percent {Deseret News Church Almanac 1991). When one considers these figures in light of the ever-increasing Church growth rate, even […]
[…] the stifling warmth of humid summer through the open window. I smiled. She smiled. What in the world are we going to do for the rest of the morning? I wondered. It soon became […]
[…] [38] Mauss, 85. [39] Ibid., 167. [40] Ibid.,xii. [41] Ibid., 167. [42] “Six Intellectuals,” 68. [43] Deseret News, 1993-1994 Church Almanac (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1992). [44] See Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, […]
[…] thoughtful consideration, they conclude that certain events, felt by believers to be critically important to their faith, world view, and entire way of life, probably happened substantially differently than is represented in orthodox accounts? […]
[…] was not accepted because it was a lie and a delusion. It would lead to a frozen world of outer darkness—not because of punishment but because it would fail to be integrative and creative. […]
[…] tragedies, more related to the very physicalness and fragility of having mortal bodies or living in a world of inflexible natural laws, tragedies not altogether caused by human behavior, that I cannot spiritually or […]