[…] I cheerfully forego All else of happiness, to share With thee, in weal or woe. The world has smil’d upon me— I scorn its flattery; For naught but thy approving look, […]
[…] they may become. They see the valiant missionary who will one day share his testimony with the world and later become a righteous father who honors his priesthood. The inspired teacher sees pure and […]
[…] our sins. God who is sinless loved us while we were yet sinners. He loved the sinful world so much that he sent his own son into it to establish that each sinner is […]
[…] It was well written and suggested what a comprehensive treatment might be able to do. Then came World War II, and I became involved, first as an economist for the North Carolina Office of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of any subject which helps us to bring our “faith into dialogue with the larger stream of world religious thought and with human experience as a whole … ” To me, this means it […]
[…] magenta silk, peacock hues swirling around the Mormon women—especially around the English converts. There was a whole world of greens and blues and purples outside his door, and for days at a time, he […]
[…] John C. Greene, “The Kuhnian Paradigm and the Darwinian Revolution in Natural History,” in Science, Ideology, and World View: Essays in the History of Evolutionary Ideas (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981). [10] For […]
[…] that you think it’s true,” he said gently. “But there are plenty of other people in the world who have dedicated their lives to their religion. What about Mother Teresa? Or Buddhist monks? There […]
[…] other religious orders do), is, to say the least, extremely challenging. If one could withdraw from the world with its “cauldron of unholy loves” to a cloistered world where, to use Gerard Manley Hopkins’s […]