[…] end of the nineteenth century as well as the disruptions caused by the First World War, the Stock Market crash and the Great Depression distracted Church authorities from a social concern that remained largely […]
[…] trekking in the Andes with her fiancé Jorge, a returned missionary and graduate of Duke University in finance, but how had she come here? Why had no one tried to find her? Why no […]
[…] of the Book of Mormon is no easy task in the era of DNA studies, archaeological excavations, and aggressive attacks by evangelical Protestants. Latter-day Saints cultivate commitment to the veracity of the Book of […]
[…] European society. Overcrowded cities, exploitation of industrial workers through wage slavery, prices deter mined purely by the market and at the expense of human needs, commercial insurance, and the social evil of prostitution, all […]
[…] been talk of establishing a colony for these Armenian Saints where they might be taught agricultural pursuits, stock raising, fruit growing, bee keeping, poultry, etc. Favorable decisions have been made and unfavorable conditions have […]
[…] of fatalism (of which, incidentally, there is a strong infusion in Mormon thought as well). I took stock of the situation in 1969 as a Senior Scholar at the Institute of Advanced Projects located […]
[…] of obedience and the law prohibiting murder: ” ‘He believed God. His undaunted faith carried him with breaking heart toward the land of Moriah with this young son who little suspected the agonies through […]
[…] promise of contemporary Mormon women more realistically than she. Underlying these stories is a sense of the world’s irremediable ills. In many of them, it is Sillitoe’s express purpose to uncover those ills. The […]
[…] the globalization of the Church. Under President David O McKay, the Church was able to reach out to more people beyond North America and Europe, which led to an increase in membership, temples and missionaries.
[…] 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 […]