[…] do not find this problematic. Sophocles certainly did not anticipate Freud when he wrote Oedipus Rex, but today we are far more likely to associate the term “Oedipal” with the play’s most famous interpreter than […]
[…] since come to be regarded instead as gateways to worldly opportunity. With worldly opportunity has come worldly achievement, which has in turn brought worldly respectability; and respectability is always a problem for a “peculiar people.”
[…] repeatedly emphasized the lurid and sensational. In Riders of the Purple Sage and The Rainbow Trail, (1918 Fox Company releases based on the best-selling Zane Grey novels), catch phrases like “An Expose of Early […]
[…] years ago an interesting film called Network focused on an anchor person (Mr. Beal) on the nightly news who one day puts down his script and refuses to report the fodder being fed him […]
[…] break the body of Christ as we separate ourselves from one another. This is not a holy breaking, a sacramental one, but an unholy one, a desecration. Jesus Christ came, God on earth, to […]
Legend has it that in the year 988 A.D., Prince Vladimir, ruler of ancient Kievan Rus’, brought Christianity to the Slavs. The apparent catalyst for his own conversion was a plea from Emperor Basil […]
[…] 6 (May 1976): 12-13; Jerry Jacobs, “The Church has Divine Mandate to Teach Gospel to Indians,” Church News, 20 Nov. 1976; Dean L. Larsen, “Mingled Destinies: The Lamanites and the Latter-day Saints,” Ensign 5 […]
[…] wc2002/legislation. Ibid. “Community, Common Consent, and the Issue of Homosexuality,” 2003, retrieved November 6, 2003, from http://www.cofchrist.org/ news/ oct2002. “World Conference Legislation 2004,” 2003, retrieved November 6, 2003, http://www.cofchrist.org/wc2004/announcements. Press release, “Community of Christ […]
For the most part, Mormons have been a socially homogeneous people. True, the initial Anglo- American stock was reinforced from time to time by immigrants from Western Europe, but these converts were quickly absorbed […]
[…] she remembered in the Yosemite Valley. So far, they had discovered no hope of escape. Even so, today they were heading to the western wall where a new idea had taken hold of them. […]