
By Jacob Rennaker Recent remarks by Pope Francis have caused quite a stir. Reuters summarized the essence of this message, saying “Atheists are good if they do good.” But the Pope’s remarks actually went much further. According to Vatican Radio, Pope Francis stated, “The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with [...]
J. Max Wilson has written an excellent post on the limits of the LDS doctrine of prophetic fallibility at his site Sixteen Small Stones. It is absolutely true that the church does not believe that its prophets and apostles are infallible. There is no infallibility doctrine. The prophets are undeniably human beings and subject to normal [...]
When I was an undergraduate at Cornell , then Yale and a graduate student at Oxford, then Yale once again, the American university was an exceedingly lively place in which students were encouraged to explore a diversity of perspectives. The people in charge were, by and large, New Deal liberals — moderate in manner, open [...]
Last fall France’s Chief Rabbi, Gilles Bernheim, published a courageous and incisive argument against homosexual marriage and adoption. In December Pope Benedict publicly praised the Rabbi’s essay in the strongest terms. That essay has now been published by First Things magazine somewhat abridged and lightly edited. It was translated from the French by Ralph Hancock, [...]
John Dehlin asks Professor Hancock if he can sympathize with Mormon Progressives who have brought up controversial statements or positions of past church leaders in an honest effort to understand the truth. Dehlin believes that Church leadership treated these members unfairly or even hostilely, in some cases. He asks Dr. Hancock if he can understand [...]




