[…] later that while the total number of missionaries was expected to increase, this was because all non- English-speaking missionaries would report to the Provo complex, not because of a dramatic jump in the number […]
[…] Church. I am going to call this the “Dialogue diet.” What I propose is a program of reading (with some skimming and skipping allowed, of course) the entire print run of Dialogue: A Journal […]
Cross-posted at By Common Consent. By Board Member Michael Austin. I read the Qur’an often because it speaks peace to my soul. I know that sounds kooky, but I promise I’m not a […]
[…] what the gospels are really about” (ix). According to a dominant Christian view today, God created the world and called Israel to be His people, and upon their failure he sent down Plan B, […]
[…] been doing it for so long, it’s become second nature. A year or so ago in an English class at BYU, we were playing a “get to know you” game. This one involved each […]
[…] the controversy see Ralph V. Chamberlin, Life and Philosophy of W. H. Chamberlin (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1925), 137–60; Ernest L. Wilkinson, ed., Brigham Young University: The First One Hundred Years, vol. […]
[…] according to plan. To them, the excommunications of the September Six were not even the most important news item that month. The biggest highlight was the warm welcome the Church had received at the […]
[…] Saints, 2020). Jana Riess, “New LDS Handbook Softens Stance on Sexuality, Doubles Down on Transgender Rules,” Religion News Service, Feb. 19, 2020. “Transgender Individuals,” General Handbook of Instructions, 2020. J. Sumerau and Ryan Cragun, […]
[…] I had accepted it that I would have found myself under a stake president who did not share his views of what was involved in the task. He added, “Sometimes we do make errors.” […]
[…] remarks were directed. I infer that the Snows find capriciousness in God to be intensely repugnant; I share their disdain. It seems time, then, that we eschew those peripheral doctrines which inescapably confer it […]