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Ever since his great synthesis, Darwin’s name has been a source of discomfort to the religious world. Too sweeping to be fully fathomed, too revolutionary to be easily accepted, but too well documented […]
Dialogue 40.1 (Spring 2007): 83–136Watson explains how the secret marriage of Louis J. Barlow to a 15-year-old girl caused a major rift among fundamentalists. Today’s fundamentalist members are still experiencing the effects of that marriage.
[…] consists of two proposals: a “judicious tariff” and the creation of a national bank with the capital stock owned by the federal government. This bank would have branches in the several states, and the […]
[…] record that actually show up in church on a regular basis. Pew Research Center, Religious Landscape Study: USA (Washington, D.C.: Pew, 2014). Amorette Hinderaker and Amy O’Connor, “The Long Road Out: Exit Stories from […]
[…] weakened through our absorption into secular, pluralistic societies undergoing momentous change, perhaps it is time to take stock of our position. Do our present patterns of social and economic life in affluent America enable […]
[…] public health programs. It resounds to our own day in attempts to keep unproven therapies on the market. Despite the death from smallpox shortly thereafter of an Apostle and his wife—the only members on […]
[…] and then a common religiousness. In a very powerful sense, every religious community in the United States today is natively American. From the fourth century onwards, religion in Europe followed the principle cuius regio […]
Sterling M. McMurrin has been a leading philosopher and educator for many years. Among his publications pertaining to the philosophy of religion are Religion, Reason, and Truth (1982) and The Theological Foundations of the […]
[…] world. Within months after assuming his presidency, he embarked on a series of world tours, much as Pope John Paul of today‘s Catholic Church has done, visiting places and lands where the Church remained strong…
[…] human creativity in response to the divine lure. Joseph also used his seer stone for what we today would consider secular purposes; but the most important purpose of his instruments was to open the […]