“Why would you ever want to get involved in politics? Politicians are nothing but self-serving sleazeballs who will do anything to win. Nothing’s ever going to change that!” That was the sort of wisdom […]
[…] in turn, breaks down into several others. First, is the church entitled to intervene in the nation’s politics (including state and local)? Of course it depends on what we mean by “intervene” or “intervention.” […]
[…] Many officers of the brigade felt that we ought to become more in volved in radical American politics. I wrote to a former roommate, Steve Martinot, who was then a leading member of the […]
[…] principles (plural marriage or organic evolution) or which involved larger political interests (dietary rules, member involvement in politics), or a combination (the League of Nations controversy). It is, I believe, at these stress points […]
[…] sure, but they were also com mitted to upward socio-economic mobility for themselves as individuals. In their politics, in their attitude toward the national issues of the day, and in their understanding of American […]
[…] upcoming election and were curious about what I thought of the candidates. We’re not supposed to talk politics, so I told them I had no opinion. I did not tell them our mission home […]
<i>Dialogue 40.1 (Spring 2007): 83–136</i><br>Watson explains how the secret marriage of Louis J. Barlow to a 15-year-old girl caused a major rift among fundamentalists. Today’s fundamentalist members are still experiencing the effects of that marriage.
[…] most prominent Mormon topics in 1978, apart from President Kimball’s announcement and the ERA, were education, local politics, polygamy and Utah’s heritage. Significant issues receiving local cover age in Utah were the American Civil […]
[…] business and the need for objectives other than profit. However, many academic people in the liberal arts share Professor Clark’s view that there is to be no accommodation with the market place. The moneychangers […]
[…] 8 (1974): 90-104. For discussions of writing and the body, see Peter Stallybrass and Allon White, The Politics and Poetics of Transgression (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986); Michael Taussigg, Shamanism, Colonialism, and the […]