The following thoughts come from my experience as a faithful and ortho dox Latter-day Saint, as a Mormon bishop, as a critic of some aspects of institutionalized Mormonism, and as an activist and […]
[…] by wonderful Mormon folk in 1980s Davis County, Utah. I was finding my way to faith in the miserable, wet poverty of southern Louisiana, but it was a faith inflected by my lifelong skepticism […]
[…] Speech in the United States, 314-15, 543 (1941); Mill, On Liberty, 271 (Great Books of the Western World ed., 1952). Discriminations in terms of age classifications have been commonly accepted features of many statutes […]
[…] Lake Basin had, relatively speaking, little or no identity crisis. They had limitless land, isolation from the outside world for nearly a decade, and the creative and resourceful guidance of established leaders. These leaders were […]
[…] training. A second area of importance was the research opportunities provided by the Brigham Young University New World Archaeological Foundation (BYU NWAF). In the early 1960s President David O. McKay appointed Elder Howard W. […]
[…] our personal restoration, we come to this place made sacred in our ordinances. Young Joseph sought this world in his confusion. He came to ask what he could do; he came to talk in […]
[…] perspective and how this “revelation” is akin to or different from the revelations spoken of in other world religions. The following is an over simplified statement of a complex topic, but it may provide […]
Mormonism seems to have adopted a position on the relation between reason and revelation. The two concepts frequently appear alongside each other in publications and talks by church apostles, officials of Brigham Young University, […]
[…] article Leslie Norris, one of Evenson’s colleagues in BYU’s English department, said, “Brian has created a whole world…. It is a world where people work very hard, yet everything is purposeless. His great gift […]
[…] soon discovered we’d both planned a backpacking trip into the Grand Canyon over Memorial Day weekend. “Small world!” I proclaimed, and when she smiled her teeth sparkled as if half the Milky Way had […]