A Dialogue Retrospective
April 1, 2018[…] 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 […]
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Elijah’s Calling: 1840-41 (from This Could Be the Dawning of That Day)
March 30, 2018[…] 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 […]
Inherit the Wind, Mormon Style | Stan Larson, ed., Can Science be Faith-Promoting by Sterling B. Talmage, and Trent D. Stephens, D. Jeffrey Meldrum, and Forrest B. Peterson, Evolution and Mormonism
March 28, 2018[…] 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 […]
What You Don’t Know
March 23, 2018[…] 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 […]
Between Suicide and Celibacy | Fred and Marilyn Matis and Ty Mansfield, In Quiet Desperation: Understanding the Challenge of Same-Gender Attraction
March 22, 2018[…] 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 […]
“Lord, To Whom Shall We Go?” The Challenges of Discipleship and Church Membership
March 21, 2018Over the course of a lifetime, I have had occasion to give thought to the question of why I continue to be an active, committed member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day […]
The Prophet Elias Puzzle
March 21, 2018Early Mormonism is notable for a proliferation of angels, scriptural luminaries who visited the Prophet Joseph Smith and his close associates. These visitations not only established prophetic authority generally but were also often associated […]
“The Living Oracles”: Legal Interpretation and Mormon Thought
March 18, 2018[…] to say about some contemporary philosophical, social, or political issue. Where should a Mormon thinker begin? Consider the counter-example of Catholic intellectuals. Faced with such a question, they have the luxury of a rich […]
A Year of Dialogue: Thinking Myself into Mormonism
March 18, 2018The Green Library stacks are a study in contradictions. Outside lies Stanford grandeur—three-story stucco architecture spread across multiple thousands of acres, perfectly manicured lawns and plant arrangements, arches, gates, fountains. The rest of […]
“That Which Surpasses All Understanding”: The Limitations of Human Thought
March 18, 2018[…] within me when I read them on a bright autumn day in 1980. I was then in the first few months of my LDS mission in central Virginia. But reading those words took my […]