[…] not overrate his intellect, and on the other, in affairs of religion spiritual empiricism must take precedence over scientific empiricism. I remember as a college student, being in the first heady stages of encountering […]
<i>Dialogue 9. 3 (1974): 21–37</i><br> Duane Jeffrey is to be thanked for his article, “Seers, Savants and Evolution: The Uncomfortable Interface.” It is an excellent summary of the history of thought on evolution in […]
Just over ten years ago I was approached by four young Mormons who were affiliated with Stanford University in one capacity or another. They wanted to know if there was a library market for […]
My grandfather, for whom I was named, was born in 1878 in a four-room stone house built by his father in Round Valley, near Morgan, Utah. My great grandfather had a small farm there […]
[…] me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (Mark 7: 6,7) Sentimental church music is a carry-over from the latter part of the nineteenth century—the so-called “Romantic” […]
[…] the mirror to look at Kim. He was smiling. (Kim had had him go with him to buy his new shoes at Clark’s so he would be sure to get the same kind.) Greg […]
[…] extenuating circumstances. Many who generally opposed petting would not oppose it this strongly. In 1972 only 2. 6 per cent of the active Mormon women, but 24.8 per cent of the church-attending non-Mormon women, […]
[…] state) 92.0 (3) 63.5 (3) 93.2 (2) 64.4 (3) (5) Midwest I (state U.) 55.4 (5) 37. 6 (5) 50.2 (4) 34.3 (4) (6) Midwest II (Catholic U.) 50.0 (6) — 33.2 (6) — […]
[…] will not repudiate finally the grace of God.” Milton Viorst in the New York Times estimated that 6,500 people every week used the Genealogical Society’s various services which were “free to Mormon and non-Mormon […]
[…] the image of a cowardly leader apparently leaving his wives and children to fend for themselves (illustration 6). Harper’s Weekly, the other highly successful illustrated weekly, was offering its own satirical version of the […]