Bodies, Babies, and Birth Control
March 26, 2018[…] in the next life warning that “those who attempt to prevent their offspring from coming into the world in obedience to this great command, are guilty of one of the most heinous crimes in […]
[…] in the next life warning that “those who attempt to prevent their offspring from coming into the world in obedience to this great command, are guilty of one of the most heinous crimes in […]
[…] as relatively similar to the LDS Church both in size and in rates of growth around the world. For 2000 the Adventists claimed a membership of 524,207 in Mexico. The Mexican census reported 488,945 […]
[…] diamond ring after homemade lasagna and before Breyers ice cream at Kiwanis Park. *** In an ideal world, I’d be able to sit down at lunch with a group of friends and we’d all […]
[…] determining doctrine; the Catholic cult of the feminine; and Catholic reverence for the order of the natural world. Protestant theology as a general rule favors left-brain functions. As opposed to the givenness of the […]
[…] 10-12 percent now found in the Northeast. Fewer than 1 percent are in the rest of the world combined. Dialogue readers have always been well-educated. Some 41 percent have doctoral degrees (about the same […]
[…] of charismatic peculiarity, except at the relatively abstract level of theology.” Our whole relationship with the “Gentile” world was reworked. Religious communities draw a circle in the sand around themselves, establishing requirements for those […]
[…] the population had resisted the authority of the standing order–in moving out of the town centers, in breaking from the churches, in seeking wealth over piety. They had not followed the Puritan practice of […]
These things happened fifty years ago. It was 1962, the year of the World’s Fair in Seattle. I was twenty-one and had just finished my junior year at Utah State University in Logan. My […]
[…] when it seems improbable, if not impossible, that the promises will be fulfilled. For many in our world today, the situation is similar. Billions of people in the world today live in poverty. Millions […]
[…] “An abortion is a very sad thing.” He paused, bracing himself. “But a child coming into this world unwanted is tragic.” It is in this context that I grew up a faithful member of […]