[…] victims of some other tragedy. They might just be confused youngsters, fighting to make sense of a world that seems cruel and unfeeling. Joining a strange Church is not a risk simply because these […]
Dialogue 23.1 (Spring 1990): 11–36 A history of Black LDS social groups and organizations. The Genesis Group gave African Americans a better chance to connect with fellow African Americans through frequent socials. The first […]
[…] scope to include Jews and non-Jews, empowering the fledgling movement to grow gradually into one of the world’s greatest religions. Jesus left no writings behind, and the information provided about him in the Gospels […]
[…] by natural law; (2) is explanatory by reference to natural law; (3) is testable against the empirical world; (4) reaches conclusions that are tentative; and (5) is falsifiable.[27] How does creationism, new or old, […]
[…] willingness based on the perceived need to identify, monitor, and punish “enemies.” After the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, I was troubled by the talk about retribution and retaliation and […]
Dialogue 39.1 (Spring 2006): 1–18 Perhaps no other moral issue divides the American public more than abortion. In part, the controversy hinges on the question of when the spirit enters the body. If a […]
[…] I take it that men and women will, in these kingdoms, be just what the so-called Christian world expects us all to be—neither man nor woman, merely immortal beings having received the resurrection Joseph […]
[…] the beautiful whole. Since that cosmic order manifested itself in not only the physical but the social world, ethics meant understanding how to fit in with one’s community and family. In Aristotle, for example, […]
[…] with the Poplars in her country lanes, They have known exile too And reach for their Old World home As you might for your [own?] in absentia. If by Richards’s own hand, these might […]
[…] order to judge the text’s accuracy—this was a new idea about the relationship between narratives and the world. Making the question of scriptural truth a positive question—a question about posits—reflected a wholesale change that […]