Marc A. Schindler
MARC A. SCHINDLER was born in 1954 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He graduated from the University of Calgary with a B.S. in computer science (1977) and enjoyed a long career in the high tech industry, most recently as director of software for the Innovation and Science Ministry of the Alberta Provincial Government. He has published articles in Verbatim, Sunstone, and DIALOGUE (including "Is There Such a Thing as a 'Moral War'!" [Vol. 24, no. 4]), and was active in FAIR, an on-line Mormon apologetics group. At the time of his unexpected death on October 19, 2003, Marc was forty-nine years old and collaborating on a book about the New Testament. He leaves behind his wife, Cathy, and their four children.
From “Zion’s Attic” | Brigham Y. Card, Herbert C. Northcott, John E. Foster, Howard Palmer, and George K. Jarvis, eds., The Mormon Presence in Canada
Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 4
Latter-day Saints are an even smaller minority in Canada than they are in the United States. To put their numbers into perspective, if Canada were California (the populations are approximately equal), the Mormon community would…
Read moreIs There Such a Thing as a “Moral War”?
Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 4
As anti-war demonstrations gained in size and frequency throughout the Western world during the Gulf War, it is doubtful that many Latter-day Saints took part, if experience during earlier conflicts is anything to judge by.…
Read moreThe Johannine Comma: Bad Translation, Bad Theology
Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 3
The portion of 1 John 5:7-8 highlighted in bold has long given biblical scholars pause for thought. Not just modern, “secular,” or “liberal” scholars, either. A physics professor of mine once told his students that Sir Isaac Newton, whose formulation of the laws of gravity still form the fundamentals of physics, actually wrote four times as many books on theology as he did on science.
Read moreAnother Perspective | David Trobish, Mormonen—die Heiligen der letzten Zeit? [Mormons—Saints of the Latter Times?]
Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 4
When one reviews a book on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a language other than English—regardless of the content of the book—the question of the significance of non-English books about Mor…
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