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Faith and science

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What Scientific Research Reveals About the Latter-day Saints

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What happens when scientists investigate how members of a faith community live? Several American universities and research institutions have examined this question in recent decades. Their findings about members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are remarkable. And they tell us something more important than how religious we are: what...

The churches are empty, but the questions remain

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The churches are empty, but the questions people once went to church for remain: what is a good life, how do I deal with guilt, loss and death, and what can I hope for? Science explains how the world works, not what to do with it. These enduring questions can be read as a human invention or as a reference to a source outside ourselves. I choose the second, and explain...

Warned two centuries too early

The Belgian warning on alcohol advertising loses the word 'abuse', with which the government acknowledges that there is no safe lower limit for alcohol. Nearly two hundred years ago, the 1833 Word of Wisdom went further than the temperance movements of the time by calling for complete abstinence. That does not make that revelation a medical manual, but it does show how a rule of life can be...

Moderately Religious: believing in a secular world