[…] 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 […]
[…] up. On our way back to town, Melba asked, “So what’s Reuben up to these days? The world still against him?” When I told her what he’d said about the churchhouse, she told me, […]
[…] Latter-day Saints (usually called Mormon or LDS church) is having enormous success in most parts of the world. Growth is particularly impressive in Latin America. In 1971 there were only 217,500 LDS members on […]
[…] Mattie was a Boston transplant. Don’t ask me how he got out to our side of the world, but he did. See, I’d never met any driver’s ed teachers from Boston, anyone from Boston, […]
[…] the county fair. Erval Feldsted had a warm spot for schemes like this. No reason in the world why his children should feel bad that other dads took their kids to baseball games. If […]
[…] even started. On the other hand, for some, God’s absence is itself an obvious aspect of the world as it is given. God’s improbability presents itself as a fact not as a choice. And […]
[…] J. Blum and Paul Harvey describe the use of the Christus in LDS “welcome centers” around the world noting that while “Blacks were technically welcome . . . they first had to pass by the powerful white […]