[…] major offshoots of the Judeo-Christian tradition and the most emphatically committed to the reality of the spiritual world. In what is only a seeming paradox, Mormons might be said to believe in a form […]
[…] of describing this crisis has to do with “scientific realism.” Here we might ask, What is the world? What kinds of things are in it? What is truth? Is there, in fact, any such […]
[…] of both groups to establish congregations in Canada’s far west and explores why the growth of the Latter-day Saint and Reorganized Latter Day Saint churches in British Columbia became so lopsided after World War II.
[…] is that there is a God. And, since God set the forces in motion that called this world into being, it follows that all truth, from whatever source, relates to him and his existence. […]
[…] Although Mormon proselyting was initiated in the nineteenth century here, most countries received full-time missionaries only after World War II, and some significantly later. After an initially slow start, church growth jumped sharply in […]
[…] conflicting messages, especially so given the progressive sympathies of media operators. Knowledge of being watched by the world acted as a further accelerator.” The reaction on the ideological level was clear. Mainline churches, like […]
[…] years, my exit from the ward doors to see what I could see in the big wide world? Why not talk about my en counters with other “isms”—Taoism, Buddhism, humanism, existential ism, fundamentalism, Sufism, […]
[…] McKay was assigned to undertake a one-year tour of various Latter-day Saint missions and schools throughout the world. In 1922 he assumed even more responsibilities when he was appointed president of the European Mission. […]
[…] with others, incarcerated there for having violated the U.S. law against plural marriage (called polygamy in the world). As the brethren came into the prison, I organized them into classes of bookkeeping. The course […]
Two decades have passed since Dialogue last published an issue entirely devoted to Mormon literature. In the meantime literary writing about Latter-day Saints has been burgeoning both in LDS and national markets—so much so […]