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  • Missionary Dies in Mexico Bicycle Accident

    The following is excerpted from the Church Newsroom. To read the full report, CLICK HERE. A missionary serving in Mexico has passed away. The following statement is from Church spokesman Sam Penrod: It is with much sadness we share that a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

  • How Prayer Helps a Hurting Heart

    By Scott McDermott Learning how to pray when our life is hurting is one of the most important lessons we can ever learn in life, yet so few of us have been taught just how to do it. Personal pain is a part of everyone’s experience. As Jesus teaches, the

  • Do We Love Creation Like God Does?

    Are you in love with God’s creation? Do you love creation with the same love with which God loves it? I teach theology courses on science and theology at the University of Notre Dame and also have the opportunity to teach an aquatic ecology course in the biology department. I

  • We Are Family: On Fraternal Liberalism

    In Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI makes a surprising claim about integral human development: “The development of peoples depends, above all, on a recognition that the human race is a single family.” What are we to make of this claim? It is neither a policy prescription nor a partisan

  • Our Very Human God

    By Kenneth Tanner Our closest galactic neighbor, Andromeda, is 2.5 million light-years away. She dwarfs our galaxy and contains a trillion stars. The energy that fuels all those stars and has kept them in a spiral for 13 billion years is measurable, but who has the instruments or the time?

  • An Archaeology of the Liberal Episteme

    Liberalism is generally thought to be first and foremost a political theory. In a specifically historical sense this is correct. Liberalism arrives on the scene in the work of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, with the aim of making societies dependent on social contract theory. Yet, today liberalism has become