“Among the Mormons”
April 17, 2018[…] it cannot be improved as well as not.” Some few years after I first arrived in Utah —sometime after the last handcart and before the first Winnebago—a young sociologist came to join the university […]
[…] it cannot be improved as well as not.” Some few years after I first arrived in Utah —sometime after the last handcart and before the first Winnebago—a young sociologist came to join the university […]
[…] bishop of the same ward. Any large city attracts people from their original homes and extended families —many for professional or educational reasons, some because they are trying to “find themselves” in a new […]
Science is full of strange twists and unexpected developments —so many, in fact, that we are rarely surprised anymore by its most recent revelations. But one of the biggest scientific surprises of the twentieth […]
God sometimes seems to me quite unreasonable. I’ve thought so especially at times when it appears that the one gift he has clearly given me, the gift of dialogue, is also a source of pain […]
[…] in the Bible is the sum of life’s meaning. Judaism is over 2,000 years of Bible study and nothing more. While others have twisted the Bible and tortured its meanings, we Jews would never […]
[…] my life. I met smiling Alice Spencer at BYU after serving as a missionary in New Zealand —thirty months as a proselyting missionary and district president, and an additional fifteen months as acting mission […]
I sat there on the bench in Lecture Block C at Cambridge University with a very real ache in my brain where my classical education should have been. It was a rare warm day […]
[…] Profanity.” Maybe that was not an intentional emendation but, as one couldn’t help suggesting, a Freudian slip —just a little gremlin of the superego editing the program and not the mind of Sunstone Symposium […]
[…] He was alluding to pyramid schemes and speculative investments initiated by unscrupulous LDS individuals preying upon the trust between people with cultural and religious bonds. Professional concern about involvement of LDS leaders in fraudulent […]
Dear Sirs: . . . . The expression of personal opinions will inevitably engender some disagreement, but it would be sad if Dialogue were to try to limit itself to the expression of only those […]