Dialogues on Science and Religion
April 27, 2018[…] 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.” […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] been willing enough to pour the new wine of the restoration into the old bottles of the English language; I can’t imagine why the Holy Ghost should scorn the sonnet or the short story. […]
[…] on, now firmly committed to publication, but still part-time. Andrew was working on his master’s degree in English at BYU, and I had my hands full teaching law. Finally in 1977, Andrew and I […]
[…] History of the Latter-day Saints in the Pacific (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, expected 1981). Deseret News, 1979 Church Almanac (Salt Lake City), p. 222. Ian R. Barker, “The Connexion: The Mormon Church […]
[…] from the earlier edition, quotations in this paper are from the 9th ed. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Steam Printing Establishment, 1874). Elders’ Journal of the Church of Latter Day Saints 1 (July 1838): […]
[…] henceforth black men may hold the priesthood.” This involved the “reclassification of a whole segment of society.” News of the First Presidency’s announcement, as dramatically retold by Janet Brigham in Sunstone, “was electric—it swept […]
[…] 153-55. Aldrich, “Organizational Boundaries,” p. 289. Membership figures are from 1983 Church Almanac (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1982), pp. 214-16. “Wilford Woodruff and the Changing Nature of Mormon Religious Experience,” Church History 45 […]
[…] 14. Ibid., p. 15. R. V. Chamberlin, ed., Philosophy of W. H. Chamberlin (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1925), pp. 321-22. Joseph Fielding Smith in an interview with G. E. Tickemyer in Salt […]
[…] chair ruled against objection, but the conference voted to table the entire matter. Looking toward the 1972 World Conference, the Portland, Oregon, Metropolitan branch passed a resolution on expanded female participation in church life. […]