[…] forms of our concepts of him and the inflexible forms of our response to him in the world; unable to let our confidence wax strong in his presence through the feeling that our lives […]
[…] the norms of Mormonism are overwhelmingly dominant. Brigham Young University is perhaps the only place in the world where the Church exercises such complete control over the intellectual, social, and spiritual norms of its […]
[…] V, 259). In August of the same year, Smith declared, “I am above the kingdoms of the world, for I have no laws. I am not come to tell you to vote this way, […]
[…] while!) so little is left, and of which we can never have any more, whatever goodhap the world may attain to. William Morris, Hopes and Fears for Art (1882) The last time I saw […]
[…] a pattern of oppression. Humility breaks a pattern of arrogance and ignorant pride. The genealogy of the world is an ugly pattern in which hate begets hate, war begets war, meanness begets meanness, oppression […]
When are the writings and Sermons of Church Leaders entitled to the claim of being scripture? I assume the scripture behind this question is the declaration of the Lord in a revelation given through […]
Old Bishop Leonard used to insist that the Spirit World was right here on earth and the dead were never far from home. He was not really the bishop anymore, but the title was […]
[…] for five straight nights, frenching until our tongues were raw. They wouldn’t have admitted it for the world, but they wanted it. It might have been my salvation, but I couldn’t take the hint […]
[…] because, he said, “it destroys the God given power to bring forth sons and daughters into this world.”[20] Undoubtedly the most difficult public problem was the enforcement of state and nationwide Prohibition against those […]
[…] fulfill what its founders believed to be its greatest purpose: propagating this message to the literate, thinking world. The only true dialogue possible be tween Mormon and non-Mormon was, and continues to be, limited […]