[…] so that many hymns are unintelligible at first sight, yielding exact meaning only after careful reading. In order to fit text to music, the translators often wrenched the syntax terribly. For example, the meaning […]
[…] and taped in November and broadcast on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. The 1974 performance was heard over 1750 stations throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the South Pacific and […]
[…] and Sisters, I have been asked to talk on music as a form of worship, or on the significance of music in worship.* I found in reading some scriptures trying to prepare for this […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] to achieve a reasonably high level of professional competence and income. They face pressure to marry in order to avoid affectional intimacy during courtship and also to fulfill their responsibility to become husbands and […]
[…] suitor follows in pursuit, and—against great odds—eventually rescues his beloved from a life of misery in Utah.[ 6] This film and other foreign melodramas* brought vigorous protests from both LDS Church and Utah civic […]
[…] become a major theory of Elder Boyd K. Packer and others who instituted a cultural taboo on the term that lasted until the early 2000s when self-labelling became somewhat more tolerated. This doctrine has […]
[…] on Elder McGrath’s shoulder. “But Elder—you don’t have to weed out all the people’s cultural traditions in order to teach them a new religion. There are some things that have to go, some others […]
[…] hostility one dares not express openly. Often directed toward individuals or institutions upon which a person is over-dependent, it is one of the more widespread phenomena observed by mental health professionals. Typical examples include […]
[…] national radicals such as Warren Chase and Victoria Claflin Woodhull inveighed at the Institute against the established order. As early as 1872 a local chapter of the radical “Peoples’ National Convention” was organized at […]