[…] abuse, and sexuality, all in the name of allowing teen readers a chance to explore the “real” world. One element of teens’ lives, however, that has often been overlooked in the literature is religion […]
My first entry into the world of so-called Mormon polygamy began on June 17, 2010 when I attended the second annual conference of Safety Net, an organization that seeks “to assist people associated with […]
[…] Planted one evening, I turned to my wife, Sara, and said, “I think that we are in the book.” I was reading an anecdote that Patrick shares near the end about some non-LDS Christian […]
[…] Congregational church and my husband in an Episcopal church, after reading Thomas Merton’s Seven Story Mountain in the early 1970s, we converted to Catholicism. There we found a spiritual home. I now help out […]
[…] dogmatism (especially religious dogmatism) grow in the land. And here is Paul, whobrought Christianity to the Western world, speaking the same words. “Prove all things”: consider all things; look at all possibilities; examine your […]
[…] once directed by an organization — the Council of Fifty — and an aspiration — imminent theocratic world government — which contemporary Mormons have scarcely heard of. Britton argues that Mormons in general were […]
[…] take on the form of what he wishes life were, and we, with him, can imagine a world of fantasy and romance. Or, his vision may be what he thinks life really is, and […]
[…] discussing what has become known as “the new morality.” Such articles have appeared in the daily newspapers, news magazines, women’s magazines, general interest pictorial magazines, as well as in dignified journals of thought. The […]
[…] of the immanence of God in human affairs that the apparently pointless evil and injustice in the world can be handled by the valid assertion that God’s ways are not man’s ways. He is […]
[…] escape the conventional units of doctrine. As a result, his collection carries the burden of the Church’s world-view with greater candor and color than any sermon can. Oddly enough for a writer of evident […]