[…] Jesus Christ himself, promising the faithful they are sealed up unto “eternal life” (D&C 131:5, 130:5, 88: 3-4; John 14:23). It may be well to remind ourselves again that even church leaders who demand […]
[…] shop or from neighbor to neighbor, to borrow and return, to ask for help and give, to buy and sell, I saw him doing the truth and felt safe. One June dawn we drove […]
[…] vulnerable. Her frequent tears, and his own apologies and conjured explanations left him perplexed and humiliatingly insecure over a physical attraction which had once seemed obvious and elemental. It is true Ellen did not […]
Since the pioneering work of Orson Pratt, little advancement has been ‘made in the area we will refer to as celestial demography.
[…] Ritual Ritual serves both to mark accession to membership and to maintain a sense of group identity.[ 6] A number of rituals are important in the Mormon context: Blessing and naming of children, baptism, confirmation, […]
[…] an italicized reminder that “stable and sound persons are never fanatics; they do not ride gospel hobbies.”[ 6] Ironically, Elder McConkie’s sweeping pronouncements in his 1980 address on “The Seven Deadly Heresies”[7] appear to […]
[…] (Summer 1984): 96–105 In 1979 and 1981, members of the Roberts family gave copies of these works to the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. Roberts’s two studies, with descriptive correspondence, will be […]
[…] a single attribute of personality, for as Karl Barth noted, the absolute is “Totally Other Than” persons.[ 6] The absolute necessarily possesses the qualities by which it is characterized unconditionally and perfectly. Traditionally, the […]
[…] salary for the previous three years had been $1200 out of which he had to live and buy chemicals, apparatus, and books. He also paid his father $40 per term beginning in 1880 to […]
The Hawaiians are surprised that we also had beaches. In their minds we represent one vast igloo Filled with people anxious to escape To winter in Hawaii.