The Reorganized Church, the Decade of Decision, and the Abilene Paradox
April 2, 2018Dialogue 31.1 (Spring 1998): 47–65In this essay I intend to build on my earlier work on the Reorganized Church and the decade of decision it faces in the 1990s.
Dialogue 31.1 (Spring 1998): 47–65In this essay I intend to build on my earlier work on the Reorganized Church and the decade of decision it faces in the 1990s.
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Dialogue 36.1 (2003): 89–108
A claim is frequently made that science and religion are not incompatible. The contention is that science and religion can be made to co-exist by compartmentalization, that is, by carefully […]