[…] earliest days, the church was preoccupied with its mission to seek out the descendants of Abraham through Jacob or Israel; these Israelites, in turn, would prepare the world for the millennial reign of the Messiah.
[…] past century; they were referred to in conference sermons and in statements and retractions in the Deseret News and Millennial Star. In retracing the fascinating course of theological differences Gary James Bergera reminds us […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] defines the idea of progress as the notion that mankind has advanced in the past from barbarism and ignorance, is now advancing, and will continue to advance through the foreseeable future. It is arguably […]
[…] it is the story of a youth whose extended family took religion seriously, even seriously enough to live peaceably with its great diversity of belief; it is the tale of a free spirit butting […]
[…] when she was accompanied by a male pianist. They worked together on the piece for some weeks; and finally, when they performed, the ecstatic release, the sense of the flowing together of their spirits, […]
[…] of the federal government stepping in to occupy vacuums, but that was truer earlier than it is today. I don’t know of anything that the governors, as a whole, are more aware of today […]
[…] no matter how he is portrayed, his influence is rarely contested. “Few reporters ever go from writing news to being news,” Susan Sheehan wrote in the New York Times Magazine of August 13,1972, “and […]
[…] the proposed Equal Rights Amendment stimulated articles throughout the year in such prestigious publications as the Buffalo News, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Los Angeles Times, Milwaukee Journal, New York Times and […]
[…] 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.