Morality or Empathy? A Mormon in the Theater
May 4, 2018[…] it can only end in something less than truth. To circumscribe our vision of what is in order to favor what should be may be a well-meaning lie, but it is still a lie. […]
[…] it can only end in something less than truth. To circumscribe our vision of what is in order to favor what should be may be a well-meaning lie, but it is still a lie. […]
[…] man’s own and can be replaced. But his genes and his basic nature belong to a higher order. They are not man’s to smash or assail. The Church, I have had reason to hope, […]
[…] felt it was none of his business and both reported expressions of preference were entirely out of order. Finally, one who had long disassociated himself from the Church stated, It made me more certain […]
[…] composer of national and international stature? Better still, how many can walk into a record shop and order the only significant commercially recorded “Mormon” composition of the Church’s 137 years and identify performers, conductor, […]
[…] are better advertised. Common law prohibition of self maiming stems historically from the need of the social order for able soldiers, not from its concern for an individual’s pain or damaged foot. Yet both […]
Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967): 19–40 In this historical analysis, Mauss argues that starting in the 1850s, the church started to deny priesthood and temple blessings to anyone who had even a trace of African ancestry.
[…] tells us that in baptism we renounce our former sinful life by crucifying the old man, in order to destroy the body of sin. Thus “the old man” dies and “a new man” is […]
[…] self-consistent? Does it account for the observed data? However that may be, it is apparent that in order for the method to work as applied to the validation of Mormonism, the author must apply […]
[…] with Larson’s view of God as an immanent personality that hovers watchfully over the perfect beauty and order of creation and the strivings of man, give his poems a significant Mormon tone. But these […]
[…] the nerve to undertake. Her problem, like Mr. Corbstt’s, was that of finding sufficient solid information. In order to solve it, Mrs. Mitchell has not only turned to the general history of Utah and […]