[…] but what is. I concur that profanity is inconsistent with the highest standards of the Church. I am painfully aware of my own predilection for this easy idiom, and I must constantly guard my […]
[…] in its leadership, its most prolific writer, its chief theologian and historian, and its most capable defender, today, only thirty-three years later, his name is scarcely known to large segments of the membership of […]
[…] one will want to deny that the Book of Mormon has been a book of considerable impact and importance in America, insofar as it has affected the lives of many millions of citizens; yet […]
[…] it obligatory for the faithful to validate every writing which Joseph Smith presented to them ex cathedra? Today, learned specialists in the Church are confidently employing their science to verify the far reaches of […]
Dialogue 4.2 (Summer 1971): 13–28 Mormon history is a part of this magnificent proliferation of data and research techniques. Its own archives are in the midst of classification by professionally competent standards. There is […]
[…] the Church was orginially founded in New York, but when they encountered pro slavery settlers in Missouri and faced the hostiltiy from the settlers early church leaders apparently changed their mind, even though Joseph […]
[…] the book. But is it possible to understand Nauvoo or Utah or either of the Mormon churches today without grasping the spiritual power Joseph exercised and still exercises? Every Mormon knows that the Church […]
[…] eyes milky, intensely blue, Fasten totally upon the life that was living From 1884 to nineteen hundred and twelve; Not seeing the life that has been his dying since, Though he has braked the […]
[…] of Gethsemane, the panorama of human suffering all along the way, the awesome responsibility forced on man today by the fact of the bomb. It is hardly a comfortable picture. No wonder our existentialist […]
[…] Provo, Utah. [11] See “Sell that Thou Hast . . . and Come and Follow Me,” Church News (March 9, 1968), p. 11. [12] Anyone interested in participating in or organizing a Friends of […]