[…] have joy.” They have likewise taught us to avoid extremes and “be temperate in all things” (D&C 6:19; Alma 38:10). This advice applies to our health habits as well. But sick people should be […]
[…] willing and capable as Orson Pratt to combine empirical and theological insights have all but disappeared from the Mormon scene. His successors have retained the enthusiastic optimism of early Mormonism, but they have not […]
[…] captures the polarized points of view between those who are in tune with the new and emerging order and those who would rather see the status quo maintained. Even though the volume includes some […]
[…] his statements on Mormon polygamy. He accepts the view that it was introduced by Brigham Young in order to accelerate the birth rate and thereby increase the economic and military strength of the isolated […]
[…] provided the Church with the expertise it needed to cross the Spanish language barrier. Having resettled in order to practice their faith in safety and peace, they also found it both convenient and necessary […]
For some years I have been working on Jungian interpretations of history, not in order to lay claim to any special insight into historical events, but as a way of enriching our experience of […]
[…] respective clergy, who were active in getting up and promoting this extraordinary scene of religious feeling, in order to have everybody converted, as they were pleased to call it, let them join what sect […]
[…] were at hand became more widespread than at any other period in American history. The old political order had been overthrown by the Revolution. A challenge to inherited ideas of place in geophysical and […]
[…] Ruth May Fox, President of the YWMIA, asked Mormon girls to abstain from smoking and drinking in order to “remove temptation from our husbands and brothers.” At the June, 1930, MIA conference, President Grant […]
[…] spiritual home. [“Church History and the Achievement of Identity” (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1972), p. 6] We need role models, not only because they teach us how to relate to ourselves and […]