[…] concludes the Book of Proverbs. I laughed, because I was unaware that anyone, especially liberal Protestants, ever read Proverbs anymore. As I undertook my research, however, I began to recognize how very rich and […]
Mormonism seems to have adopted a position on the relation between reason and revelation. The two concepts frequently appear alongside each other in publications and talks by church apostles, officials of Brigham Young University, […]
During his twenty years from 1951 to 1971 as seventh president of BYU, Ernest L. Wilkinson molded the lackluster Provo school into a showplace of LDS educational values. “More than any other single cause,” […]
[…] demographics have characterized patterns of parenthood and sexual partnerships in America. As age at marriage has increased, the age at initiation of sexual inter course has decreased so that adolescents and young adults are […]
[…] pushed Elder Pratt to a public recantation in 1865. Then he published the recantation in the Deseret News, along with a denunciation of specific absolutistic doctrines of Elder Pratt, signed by the First Presidency. […]
[…] humankind sinks in time of war, but as an increasingly international church committed to sending missionaries into all the countries of the world, who could dispute the advantages if all those countries were at peace?
[…] church going, I was still ardent. I was eight. On Sundays, while the rest of my family read newspapers around the breakfast table, I traveled from Georgetown to St. John’s Episcopal Church near the […]
[…] the validity of the description of Jesus’ physical attributes by revealing that the Publius Lentulus letter was read to the Quorum of the Twelve by President David O. McKay during a temple meeting just […]
[…] this appeal for funds was a modest one. Whether any money was sent is doubtful. No other news item is found in Solidarity until the end of the trial. Probably no direct assistance was […]
[…] and newspapers). Results showed that each of the stake presidents read a daily newspaper and a weekly news magazine, about half read a professional journal, and most read the usual Church related publications. Their […]