A Conversation About Mormonism
July 29, 2024[…] of everybody standing up and singing together—that’s great and I enjoy it. I’ve been all over the world and I’ve enjoyed going to church, and even though it was in Dutch or German or […]
[…] of everybody standing up and singing together—that’s great and I enjoy it. I’ve been all over the world and I’ve enjoyed going to church, and even though it was in Dutch or German or […]
[…] of [the] gospel might be proclaimed by the weak and the simple unto the ends of the world, and before kings and rulers” (D&C 1:23). Abish, who had every reason to feel unremarkable, was […]
At a session of general conference in 1949, Elder John A. Widtsoe shared an interesting message with the assembled Saints—a message that contained, so far as I have been able to discover, the strongest […]
Across centuries and cultures, the origin of the human soul has been a subject of deep interest and yearning, often finding wondrous expression in theology, philosophy, science, and art. Ruminating on the profound mystery […]
[…] I refer to is an intellectual one. The two organizations, church and university, approach and explain the world from two quite different perspectives. And even though our society accommodates both institutions, many students find […]
[…] passion for honesty. They are scrutinizing centuries-old suppositions and re-examining current attitudes and goals. In the Protestant world, the writings of Bultmann, Bonhoeffer, Tillich, and of the Bishop of Woolwich are evidence of this […]
Dialogue 5.3 (Fall 1966): 85–100 During the years of the Utah Territory, outsiders got appointed to the terrority to serve in various positions. For the most part, these Gentiles weren’t sympathetic towards the church, […]
[…] such a campaign may have great practical experience, excellent ideas, and the most honorable intentions in the world, but since the operation is invariably so large and the organization is generally jury-rigged, breakdowns are […]
[…] in a bank for one year and then graduates from Utah State University with a B.A. in English. The third child in a family she describes as “five only children” because they were so […]
I suspect you’re less interested in such talk than Shakespeare and I. I’m twenty years closer to death than most of you, and poor Will is centuries gone. But you’re closer than you think. […]