Making Sense of Suffering
April 12, 2018[…] that the faith of the community survives, that they are able to go on believing in the world and the value of prayer, even when they have learned that this is a world where […]
[…] that the faith of the community survives, that they are able to go on believing in the world and the value of prayer, even when they have learned that this is a world where […]
[…] stories, ceremonies, and prayers. His purpose is to preserve elements of and inform people about this Dine world view. Since there is already an extensive literature on Navajo culture and cosmology, McPherson has selected, […]
[…] of faith. An eminent mathematician, Blaise Pascal was also a philosopher and religious thinker who knew both the value of rigorous analysis and the limitations of reason. The first quotation, from his Pensees, is […]
[…] St. George, Utah. He said that Brown, Stoddard, and Moyle were “great men, good character, who left world better. My admiration and respect grew , but they were hu man.” Finally, the next year […]
[…] beginning to assume the mantle of an intellectual. I was changing in the way I viewed the world. In the summer of 1969, while working on a Master’s degree at the University of Utah, […]
[…] the first principles and ordinances of the gospel. We have discounted the greatest principles of the good news—faith, hope, and charity. Let me suggest that our faith would be strengthened and our spiritual experiences […]
[…] way your hand moves to catch a ball. If God didn’t answer prayers, I thought, then the world was a lie, but that couldn’t be true because I was kneeling on it. I could […]
[…] you, little one?” he said. She stared and swallowed before saying, “Fine. And you?” “I’m doing great today!” “Okay. . .” Her voice trailed off uncertainly. Still holding tightly to her hand, he turned […]
<i>Dialogue 33.3 (Fall 2000): 137–151</i><br> Rees’s Fall 2000 artice is titled “” In a Dark Time the Eye Begins to See”: Personal Reflections on Homosexuality among the Mormons at the Beginning of a New […]
[…] called Emmaus, a small town seven or eight miles from Jerusalem. This is a journey that began in despair and concluded in hope, and I wish to examine this transformation and apply it to […]