[…] compatibilist assertion of the compossibility of determinism and human freedom, insisting that both are actualized in the real world. Some thirty-odd years ago Sterling McMurrin accused his contemporaries in Mormondom of confusing the freedom at […]
[…] Journey, a journey which also traces the spiritual history of God’s dealings with His mortal children—on whatever world they may be found. In Tathea, which Perry originally dedicated to a number of friends, including […]
The year was 1983. Sister Mercedes Pico de Coello was dying of tuberculosis, coughing up blood. A frail and thin 43-year-old mother of twelve, her life could probably have been saved for $200. […]
Dialogue 38.4 (Winter 2006):45–82 the original text, unfortunately, no longer exists on this earth, and we are left only with the assurances of a “translator” that the testimony contained in the record is “true,” […]
I don’t know where I was or what I was doing when news spread about what has become known as the November 2015 exclusion policy. I might not have known about it at all. […]
[…] Mormon has often attracted admirers from outside the faith. Huff puts it in the category of “ world class scripture.” He also has an interesting line: “In the academic world specialization in Mormon Studies […]
The Jews have a term, “Tikkun olam,” which means “repairing the world.” It is both a statement of belief and a commitment to action by individual Jews to heal, repair, and transform the world. […]
[…] and also during my eight years in the Cabinet.”13 Benson’s trip to Europe at the close of World War II intensified his radical thinking. During his tenure as the secretary of agriculture, he became […]
[…] and on, in Mex ico and Cuba. I’m as attached to them as any place in the world. In 1956, I enlisted in the Green Berets along with two other Mormon boys. Soon thereafter […]
[…] the Romantic poets in particular—is the idea that God reveals himself to the human most palpably in a natural setting: to experience the natural world in its wildness is to experience God in his wildness.