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2014-10-12T17:28:51-06:00

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Why I Am a Mormon, Part III (Missionary Work)

Last updated on: October 12, 2014 at 5:28 pm By georgehandley

It is fair to ask why a religious conviction needs to be expressed and shared publicly. Why can’t it simply be a private and personal matter? Given the world’s long history of religious intolerance and violence too, it would seem to be a safer bet to stay at home and stay quiet about religious convictions. I have spent a great deal of my education learning about the pitfalls of religious intolerance, and I have been pained beyond my capacity to... Read more

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2014-09-28T21:47:09-06:00

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Why I Am A Mormon, Part II (Revelation)

Last updated on: September 28, 2014 at 9:47 pm By georgehandley

To continue from my previous post, I want to focus on three areas of my belief that are central to why I am a Mormon. I want to clarify again that I am not interested in making arguments against other beliefs, nor am I trying to defend what I believe. I only intend this to be an explanation of what informs my own belief and religious experience. (more…) Read more

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2014-09-23T09:56:25-06:00

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Why I Am a Mormon, Part I

Last updated on: September 23, 2014 at 9:56 am By georgehandley

This is an attempt (in four installments) to explain a few things about what might be called my spiritual autobiography. I have felt compelled to write something like this for some time, but I haven’t always known how to write about such a personal subject for a wide diversity of friends for whom I have great love and respect let alone for unknown readers. My intent is not necessarily to persuade but to share what it feels like to be... Read more

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2014-09-16T09:35:18-06:00

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Religion, Conservation, and Community

Last updated on: September 16, 2014 at 9:35 am By georgehandley

I have had a rare and unusual opportunity this week to spend a few days with leaders from The Nature Conservancy and from environmentally active religious communities representing many different faith traditions. The Nature Conservancy is an organization for which I have a great deal of respect and to which I am in debt since they helped support a faculty effort to enhance environmental education at BYU several years ago. I have written earlier about my experiences with them. (more…) Read more

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2014-08-29T14:56:43-06:00

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The Theology of Climate Change Denial

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 2:56 pm By georgehandley

Let me say outright that I am not interested in this post in trying to prove climate change to anyone. I frankly find such debates exhausting. If you want to know what I think of climate change, you can find some of my posts here and here. And if you want to read a more serious and academic version of these arguments, you can read an essay I published in Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and the Environment. More importantly, if... Read more

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2014-08-21T11:50:18-06:00

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The Spiritual Value of Reading Secular Literature

Last updated on: August 21, 2014 at 11:50 am By georgehandley

I recently gave a presentation at Education Week at BYU on this topic. I offer here a brief summary of my lecture. It builds on a theme of a number of my previous posts about reading. (more…) Read more

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2014-08-02T22:11:41-06:00

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Seeing Through A Glass Darkly

Last updated on: August 2, 2014 at 10:11 pm By georgehandley

I have learned by happy and sometimes sad experience that the mind is a changeable thing and not always the most reliable filter by which to perceive reality. I recognize, of course, that this is somewhat of an odd statement, since it is hard to imagine how else we might be able to perceive reality except through the mind. One of my favorite paintings is by Rene Magritte, called The Human Condition. In it he thematizes the paradox of trying... Read more

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2014-07-15T13:42:05-06:00

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The Trail of Memory

Last updated on: July 15, 2014 at 1:42 pm By georgehandley

37 years ago I spent one month at the Bennion Boys Ranch in Victor, Idaho. It was the first of a total of four summers I would spend there, two as a camper and two as a counselor in my late teens. My parents sent me there, not because I was a troubled kid, but because they knew Lowell Bennion had a vision and a way with people that would benefit me. My brother had gone before me and loved... Read more

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2014-06-22T08:50:11-06:00

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On Marriage

Last updated on: June 22, 2014 at 8:50 am By georgehandley

Twenty-five years ago yesterday, I married my wife, Amy. When we were dating, we did a lot of envisioning. The feeling of romance is very much a feeling, among other things, for the future. We could envision the near future—the wedding, the moving in together, the search for a life together, for financial means to support ourselves, and the prospect of bringing children into the world. And then we projected ourselves quickly into the distant future. We sometimes talked about... Read more

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2014-06-12T04:45:13-06:00

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Love of Reading

Last updated on: June 12, 2014 at 4:45 am By georgehandley

Consider this title in both of its syntactical meanings. What does it mean to love to read? What does it mean to read with love? (more…) Read more

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