The famous couplet coined by Lorenzo Snow in 1840, “As man now is, God once was: As God now is, man may be,”rears its head every now and then, inspiring both awe and […]
I grew up in an anti-Catholic world. The first thing I remember hearing about Catholics in the small town in which I was raised was not just negative, it was extremely so. Everyone I […]
[…] That arch-villain Brigham Young, they would say, foisted the image of a temporal-minded Joseph Smith upon the world. Brigham put into the mouth of a Joseph unavailable to defend himself doctrines which the Utah […]
[…] earnest Christians who did not know or appreciate the fact that there were other Christians in the world stuck with me for years. In opposition to this conviction, however, there persisted the possibility in […]
[…] of special interest and present unique problems to those concerned with the development of Mormonism as a world religion. Many of the problems which arise in Asia are also found in other missions, but […]
[…] period of intellectual, spiritual, and moral development for the “intelligences.” The varieties of men observed in this world are, to a degree, but products or temporal recapitulations of the gradations of achievement previously gained.[14] […]
[…] Our enterprise society is, in reality, a bar gaining society. All the important transactions in the economic world are negotiated, or are bargained. It is a simple fact, worth reiterating, that unless one has […]
Dialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968)101 – 105 Even a casual reading of the Book of Abraham shows that the story refers not so much to unique historic events as to ritual forms and traditions—all these […]
[…] important than was religious belief or membership in the formation of attitudes and behavior toward the secular world. Rural-urban background and general political orientation were especially significant. The chain of causation, however, may not […]
[…] where the water started. The tingling went clear to my skull, and I reached out to a world I had never known, something inviting me, as in my dreams. I left the house four […]