Thoughts of a Mormon Centurion
April 18, 2018[…] said, “Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages” (Luke 3:14). He did not suggest they should leave the army; in fact he implied that they should […]
[…] said, “Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages” (Luke 3:14). He did not suggest they should leave the army; in fact he implied that they should […]
[…] the cosmos and its perimeter was reserved for God, angels, and quintessential substances (Oresme 1977; Dick 1982, 6–12). Not until the late years of the sixteenth century, after Copernicus presented his astronomically tenable heliocentric […]
<i>Dialogue 20.1 (Spring 1987): 69–75</i><br> EVEN A CASUAL REFERENCE to studies treating the Book of Mormon reveals a range of divergent explanations of its origins. At one extreme are those who are skeptical of […]
[…] who drove El Dorados and BMW’s. While they were working weekends to make even bigger bucks to buy even bigger cars, he was sneaking around the woods looking for spoors. Three, even two years […]
[…] one in six smokes and one in three drinks. On contemporary social issues in the nation (Tables 3 and 4), the com parisons between Mormons and non-Mormons do not correspond very closely with popular […]
[…] mercy. I was my mother’s companion because my older sister and brother didn’t understand Mom’s need to buy all the dolls in the Deseret Industries; once she paid one hundred dollars to clear away […]
[…] I can vote. Meg votes absentee for LBJ and her father—she is still a Utah resident. I buy a little typewriter with a French keyboard and write my heart out in my tiny, seventh […]
[…] should use that money to help the poor. That’s why God gave it to you, not to buy cars and clothes and big houses.” Tracy’s remarks were not well received. Old Brother Dixon harumpfed […]
[…] a time when we felt very blessed as the Holy Ghost comforted us” (Skibbe 28 April 1992, 6). Donald Q. Cannon, a missionary in East Germany in the late 1950s, visited the Leipzig Conference […]
[…] and the desirability of “medium tension,” see Stark and Bainbridge, Future of Religion, especially chaps. 3 and 6; or, as I would call it for Mormons, “optimum tension.” See Mauss, The Angel and the […]