[…] For our pioneer ancestors, worship was not a running away or withdrawal from the battles of the world; neither was it an ostrich-like refusal to look problems in the face. They could not, even […]
[…] foot drop squarely on what she considered his other great failing. Grandpa drank. While to the larger world, moderate consumption of alcohol was hardly a crime, to my grandmother the mere uncorking of a […]
[…] idea out of my head. It seemed I had a choice between two good causes: serving the world as a Peace Corps volunteer or serving the world as a Mormon missionary. I couldn’t lose, […]
[…] as relatively similar to the LDS Church both in size and in rates of growth around the world.[6] For 2000 the Adventists claimed a membership of 524,207 in Mexico.[7] The Mexican census reported 488,945 […]
[…] got to choose a hundred dollars worth of fishing equipment from Carlson’s as a prize. The Second World War was over, but equipment was still hard to get. I fished with a metal telescope […]
[…] Science and religion are both serious subjects and worth further thought, but not together. One is the world of natural law, the other is the world of the supernatural. Trying to understand one by […]
[…] my own ward in Minneapolis has become an important part of my life. But perhaps because of the unique role of family-centered piety in Mormonism, I always find special comfort in attending church with […]
Susanna Morrill: I’d like to start the conversation by asking four framing questions relating to the issue of religious experience: First, are “abundant events” proper subjects of study for historians of religion? Second, how […]
[…] thought was an amazing quote from Richard Nixon, where he says, “I can take some satisfaction from the fact that this was probably the last national election in which the religious issue will be […]
[…] merely a “structured sample of reality” where science empowers their message. Alternatively, museums might encourage a pseudo-religious experience of ritually “attending” them— factors, some critics observe, that reduce the probability of resistant readings by patrons.