by Jim Sawyer | American "Disease", Cultural Renewal, Knowing versus “Believing”, Moral Development
This season has been one of profound loss in Colorado’s Boulder County. There had been an unusual slide into Winter, with virtually no Autumn precipitation. A dry Fall—segued into a dry Winter—of unseasonably high temperatures. A Winter with tinder-dry...
by Jim Sawyer | Knowing versus “Believing”, Moral Development
During my first days in New Zealand, I was assigned a senior companion—Elder C—I called him—to work on Auckland’s stunningly beautiful North Shore. He had arrived only six months ahead of me and soon earned a reputation. Personable, humble and “gung-ho,” Elder C was...
by Jim Sawyer | Knowing versus “Believing”, Moral Development
Meet The Mormons As New Zealand Missionaries for the Latter-day Saints, often we loaned out picture books—Meet The Mormons. We used them to make the case that Kiwi’s—a name honoring their unique flightless bird—might lead happier, more successful lives by “signing...
by Jim Sawyer | Knowing versus “Believing”, Moral Development
Tim LaHaye’s Publishing Empire According to The Guardian, Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind series—released annually between 1995 and 2007—sold at least 70 million copies and brought in as much as $15 million yearly to LaHaye and his co-writer. These books, with their gloomy...
by Jim Sawyer | Knowing versus “Believing”, Moral Development
What This Bumper Sticker Implies When I lived in Seattle several years ago, I was jolted by a bumper sticker on a car driven by someone I presumed to be an Evangelical Christian. “In the Rapture” it proclaimed, “This Car Will Be Driverless.” Indeed, I wondered: was...
by Jim Sawyer | Knowing versus “Believing”
Why Believing Isn’t Knowing Do you know which you are? Knower or believer? It varies of course, with the proposition encountered. Is your favored proposition, one with a basis in verifiable knowledge? Or instead, do you assert it as reality although it can be defended...
