Reverse Perspective
October 26, 2018[…] it would be ludicrous to imagine him forgetting me ever. “I didn’t know this would be happening today, but I’m glad I get to be here and thank you for everything you did for […]
[…] it would be ludicrous to imagine him forgetting me ever. “I didn’t know this would be happening today, but I’m glad I get to be here and thank you for everything you did for […]
[…] “See for example a recent article by Jack E. Jarrard and Paul R. Cheesman in the Church News, April 26, 1969. The article in general is a good example of the geographical historical approach. […]
[…] of newspapers, I plunged into a fascinating life. The printing of our school paper at the Deseret News plant brought me into contact with some of the executives of that journal. Near the end […]
[…] [29] Joseph Smith, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deserer News, 1950) V, 80n. [30] Millennial Star 1 (1841), 252-55. Cf. Robert Bruce Flanders, Nauvoo: Kingdom on […]
[…] out of context” scriptures which seem to support the Utopian or realist assumptions, for when they are read in context, there is a blend of the ideal and the real, the spiritual and the […]
[…] in the chauvinistic sense of zealous loyalty to one’s country in relation to other countries of the world, but in that kind of patriotism espoused by the early American revolutionaries which expresses itself in […]
[…] which were published in Joseph Smith’s own hometown in Palmyra, New York. So I was able to read the newspapers he had read as a young man. This turned out to be an absolute […]
[…] uncritical interpretations of the church’s text. Generally, members have leapt ahistorically across twenty or thirty centuries and read the texts as if they were directly addressed to the modern reader. All too often, RLDS […]
[…] education and assimilation skills. My own experience has been somewhat different. Since 1982 when, as a Deseret News reporter, I began to research and write about Indian issues in Utah, my world view has been […]
[…] and in verse 21 the same speaker declares, “Behold, I am Jesus Christ.” In D&C 18:47 we read, “Behold, I am Jesus Christ, your Lord and your God, and your Redeemer.” Other passages read: […]