[…] extensively injurious. Such delusions many have hoped and believed, belonged only to the dark ages of the world, or spread only among the illiterate and ignorant. But such is not exactly correct, for many […]
[…] I tried not to intrude on his thoughts which were no longer of me or of this world. Christmas came and most of the children were home. It was a happy time, with a […]
[…] for themselves and others. But I also believed that all the creativity and good will in the world are useless without the freedom to exercise them. Our group decided to vote against the proposal […]
[…] feel the same way about the twentieth century. There is much that is bad in our time: world wars, unresolved conflicts in the Middle East and the South Atlantic, the possibility of a nuclear […]
[…] a mirror that proclaims the features of the reader and it is also a map of the world.”[5] In other words, definitive statements and absolute truths are never really present in art. Or, as […]
[…] in one of the research letters: “Each Saint, will he or nil he, lives in a private world of doctrine, shaped to a great degree by Joseph Smith and his reinterpreters, but shaped much […]
[…] Hitler was then a choirboy in Austria, avidly aspiring to become a priest. Only six years earlier, the United States had been engaged in a “splendid little war” on the largest Carribean island — […]
Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 84–98 Mehr shares stories of polygamy in late 19th century and early 20th century. He especially focused on LDS women’s opinions of polygamy when they entered into polygamous relationsips.
[…] recent Mormon historians. After suggesting some characteristically if not uniquely Mormon approaches to the history of the world and the Church that could be particularly illuminating for all humankind, he ended with a brisk […]
The conflict between creationism and evolution in the past few years has prob ably brought mixed feelings to many Latter day Saints. Although some excellent scholarship has demonstrated that we have little or […]