[…] the often uncomfortable position of playing mediator or translator between Mor mons and the rest of the world. (Perhaps that is the mission President Nielsen had in mind.) As I socialize with non-Mormon friends […]
[…] assumptions. For example, in the process of totally rejecting creationism, mod ern evolutionary theory assumes an ontological world that rejects the following: essentialism (the idea that a specie has ontological status), nominalism (that the […]
[…] personal confirmation of its truthfulness. These were frightening and liberating standards for a pilgrimage. I let the world be my sanctuary and let my responses be my compass. I hoped I would find truth […]
Annette Hampshire’s Mormonism in Conflict: The Nauvoo Years is simultaneously refreshing and exasperating. To her credit, Hampshire strives for a degree of methodological and theoretical rigor that has been sadly absent in most Mormon […]
[…] briefly studied phonography (today we would say stenography), and for many years doggedly sought a revolution in English orthography. When time per mitted, he walked a half block from his office to ensure sobriety […]
[…] general authorities, as well as anyone who is struggling with homosexuality on a personal or family level. The book is divided into four major sections including (1) a foreword by Lowell Bennion and an editors’ […]
Keith Larson spent the first year of his mission in the southern Taiwan port city of Kaoshiung. After a four-month stint in Tainan, central Taiwan, he was glad to be transferred south again to […]
[…] rational process of arriving at objective truth, namely the scientific method of testing and verifying the empirical world” (63). The long struggle at Brigham Young University to balance religion and scholarship has no chance […]
“ The earth turns, the sun rises. It’s quite simple.” We turned towards the high peaks to the east—cold, and still smooth and clean with snow, the half-circle of rising sun warming our faces. […]
[…] best-kept secret: its awareness of extraterrestrials and unidentified flying objects. That such a prominent figure in the world of journalism should stoop to such a subject will undoubtedly be wilder respectable people. That Ander […]