[…] more excellent description of an Atlantic crossing under sail. We have a detailed record of the narrow world of early English converts, with all its poverty, enthusiasm, loyalty and contentiousness. Above all we have […]
[…] who already possess the truth and must therefore confirm it to the point of distorting it. The World of the Book of Mormon. By Paul R. Cheesman. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1978. […]
The two figures cleverly depicted on the cover of the Autumn, 1978 cover of Dialogue are unquestionably among the most important individuals in the field of psychoanalysis. Both were trained in the medical […]
[…] (Summer 1979): 82–91 Any constitutional amendment unavoidably casts a shadow of uncertaintyover its future interpretation and implementation. The Fourteenth Amendment, for example, has far exceeded the originally perceived purpose—elevating thestatus of blacks—and has come […]
The experience of Daniel and his friends in Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon was, perhaps, the first published instance of a controlled clinical trial. This preliminary success led to an extension of the trial diet for […]
[…] accept, but the ultimate one may be the expectation that Mormons are supposed to be “in the world but not of the world.” This injunction creates an overriding ambivalence about practicajly everything. We should […]
One spring day when I was about three years old, I hunkered near where my father and the hired man were treating seed grain with formaldehyde. Father handed me the bottle to smell, but […]
[…] is natural for Mormons to think in terms of potential missionary activity in any part of the world. With the black revelation granting the priesthood to all worthy male members, interest in missionary work […]
[…] a leaf.” He looked at me for a second and said, “If s a hell of a world, son.” It startled me. “You work your life away—and it don’t do no damn good—it don’t […]
[…] when in comes Claude with hay in his hair and manure on his shoes (he heard the news while milking), and he says he’s just come to say goodbye and gosh, honey, I’m going […]