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A Content Analysis Of Doubt: How Latter-Day Saints Interact Online When One Of Their Own Seeks Answers, Leilani Naomi Mascio, Ronald Smith

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

This content analysis examines how members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) interact with doubting members in online forums, focusing on Facebook and Reddit. Analyzing 1,115 comments from four public posts (August 2024–January 2025), six emergent themes characterize these interactions: (1) normalizing doubt, (2) thought-terminating clichés, (3) bringing back to the fold, (4) hierarchical escalation, (5) attributing doubt to Satan, and (6) emotional reasoning. Findings reveal that LDS members overwhelmingly dominate these discussions, employing doctrinal language, personal narratives, and appeals to authority to reintegrate doubters. Notably, non-member interference was rare, suggesting moderated or self-selected engagement. The …

The Cresset (Vol. Lxxxiii, No. 3, Lent), Valparaiso University

The Cresset (archived issues)

No abstract provided.

From Font To Meal To Service And Unity, Maxwell E. Johnson

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

Is Eucharistic sharing, then, properly seen as the culmination or the inception of Christian initiation? This is a big question getting right to the heart of “how Baptism forms us.”

I want to get at this in two distinct but related ways; (1) the rank and dignity of baptism in Lutheran Liturgy; and (2) the relationship of Eucharist to Church.

The Cresset (Vol. Lxxx, No. 4, Easter), Valparaiso University

The Cresset (archived issues)

No abstract provided.

Homiletic Diagnosis And Therapy For Schismatic Rigorism Through Lucan Parables, Lisa D. Maugans Driver

Theology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Publication Citations (Calendar Year 2014), Valparaiso University

Valparaiso Scholarship and Creative Works Reception

No abstract provided.

Defending The Public Good And Traditional Society: Non-Scriptural Religious Objections To Same-Sex Marriage, Donald H. J. Hermann

Valparaiso University Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Cresset (Vol. Lxxvi, No. 1, Michaelmas), Valparaiso University

The Cresset (archived issues)

No abstract provided.

The Cresset (Vol. Lxxiii, No. 5, Trinity), Valparaiso University

The Cresset (archived issues)

No abstract provided.

Rituals Of Care: A Look At The Church's Ministry With The Sick, Lizette Larson-Miller

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(excerpt) "I had an interesting experience last month writing an article on Christian healing for a journal of medicine. The parameters of the requested article were a bit vague, and as I prodded the editor with questions I realized just how much I was in un-chartered territory. The familiar concepts (or, more to the point) the familiar assumptions that are part of an insider conversation theologically and ecclesiologically were missing, and I found myself having to carefully spell out the focus of what I thought might be helpful to discuss in a journal read solely by health professionals. The experience …

Campus Chronicle (Vol. 5, No. 33), Valparaiso University

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

Campus Chronicle (Vol. 3, No. 30), Valparaiso University

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

Campus Chronicle (Vol. 2, No. 21), Valparaiso University

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

A Brook Runs Through It: Fresh Water From The Bach For Today's Thirsty Church, Mark P. Bangert

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

"Not Bach [brook], but Meer [sea] should be his name," Beethoven once said of Johann Sebastian Bach. 1 In this anniversary year marking the two-hundred and fiftieth year of his death on July 28, Bach is receiving extraordinary attention, which includes a significant biography by Christoph Wolff,2 yet another series of recordings of all the cantatas (that makes five3), and soul-searching among various scholars in an attempt to grasp the essence of this person's life and work.

The Cresset (Vol. Lxiii, No. 2 & 3, Christmas/Epiphany), Valparaiso University

The Cresset (archived issues)

No abstract provided.

The Lda Today, Vol. 2, No. 1, Lutheran Deaconess Association

The LDA Today

No abstract provided.

Dying And Rising As We Grow Up: Lifelong Baptismal Formation, Elaine Ramshaw

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

In honor of David Truemper, who taught me the Lutheran Confessions, I want to begin with a quotation from the Large Catechism. Luther writes: Thus we see what a great and excellent thing baptism is, which snatches us from the jaws of the devil and makes God our own, overcomes and takes away sin and daily strengthens the new man, always remains until we pass from this present misery to eternal glory. Therefore let everybody regard his baptism as the daily garment which he is to wear all the time. Every day he should be found in faith and …

The Lda Today, Vol. 1, No. 1, Lutheran Deaconess Association

The LDA Today

No abstract provided.

Spring 1991, Valparaiso University Guild

Valparaiso University Guild Bulletins

No abstract provided.

The Cresset (Vol. Liv, No. 4), Valparaiso University

The Cresset (archived issues)

No abstract provided.

Diaconalogue, No. 24, Lutheran Deaconess Association, Inc.

Diaconalogue

No abstract provided.

Preaching At Weddings And Funerals, Jerald W. Pipping

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

In his book, Grace Notes and Other Fragments, Joseph Sittler wrote: "Most ministers are aware that it is a tough and delicate labor to insert the lively power of the Word of God into the rushing occupations and silent monologues of human beings." (p. 64) Two occasions at which the insertion of the lively power of the Word of God into the lives of people is a particularly tough and delicate labor are weddings and funerals. In the assemblies gathered to mark these life passages the pastor will, in many cases, be encountering a significant number of persons, perhaps …

Recovering The Spirit Of Mystagogy In The Contemporary Churches, Ronald J. Lewinski

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

The restoration of the catechumenate in the Roman Catholic tradition since the promulgation of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) in 1972 has been a most surprising pastoral success. Given its size and complexity one might have predicted that the RCIA would simply be ignored or dismissed as irrelevant.

Fall 1987, Valparaiso University

Center for the Study of Campus Ministry Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Spring 1987, Valparaiso University

Center for the Study of Campus Ministry Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Vanguard (Vol. 34, No. 1), Jan-Feb 1987, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

About 110 Christians from across the U.S. recently gathered on Chicago's South Side for a three day conference to examine and reflect on the Kairos Document of South Africa. They were joined by dozens of southern Africans, including several who were at the heart of that document's genesis, and who shared with participants some story of the document's unique evolution as 'Challenge to the Church: A Theological Comment on the Political Crisis m South Africa.'

What We Have Seen And Heard And Touched, Gilbert Ostdiek O.F.M.

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

This year's Institute of Liturgical Studies has been carrying on an extended conversation on the relation between liturgy, witness, and service. It is a pleasure to join that conversation as a liturgist for whom liturgical catechesis of adults has been a longstanding avocation.

Making A Public Difference In The Ministry Of Word And Witness, Dieter T. Hessel

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

Today, the liberating movement of faith and a new cycle of societal change coincide to bring our churches and North American society itself to a turning point. The ecclesial and social situation alike call for a new era of ministry to make a public difference. My presentation will focus on the ethical contours of faithful community empowered by the living Word, and some public dimensions of parish ministry that responds to the Word through social witness.

Spring 1986, Valparaiso University

Center for the Study of Campus Ministry Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Vanguard (Vol. 33, No. 5), July 1986, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Church leaders in El Salvador, the U.S. and Europe have firmly denied accusations by a member of the non-governmental Human Rights Commission that the leader of the Lutheran Synod of El Salvador is a member of the Communist Party.

In a May 30 press conference, Luz Yaneth Alfaro Pena linked humanitarian and church-based organizations to the Faribundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), a guerrilla federation aiming to overthrow the Salvadoran government.