[…] Shaun Casey, a professor of Christian Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. Casey’s recent book, The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) formed […]
I first entered the Longfellow Park chapel on September 4, 1977. It was fast Sunday. I was a new physics grad student at MIT and a convert, baptized only about six months previously. This […]
[…] the generations of friends and mentors I met in that building. Its destruction by fire is stunning news. Happily the experiences and memories, wrestlings and witnesses that affected me in that building are worked […]
Truman Madsen was a speaker extraordinaire, one of the finest orators in the Church, able to speak extemporaneously in a captivating voice. Alert to his audience, he was able to thread the pieces of […]
[…] sanctimony. Of course, it didn’t start with California’s Proposition 8. No, that river’s path pushes back, through the ’90s and the Church’s involvement with the matter of gay marriage in Hawaii, to the experiences […]
[…] ragged selves fit seamlessly into humanity, and how this unity can salve our individual wounds. Indeed, Barber’s search for self ends as a plea for personal transcendence: “Help me out of myself, please” (214). […]
[…] * * * So far the only testimony I’ve understood completely: a tourist from Japan speaking in English and being translated into French. He arrived this morning and was still undecided: attend church or […]
Abraham H. Cannon was Mormon aristocracy. The son of long-time First Presidency member George Q. Cannon, he accepted a call as an apostle at age thirty. During the latter portion of his life, the […]
Christ was perfect. Christ turned water to wine at the wedding at Cana. Did Christ create the perfect wine?
[…] things have been on my mind recently. They have provoked a lot of thought and research. Over the past months, I have spent hours on the internet perusing medical studies, Church websites, and countless […]