[…] publications are correlated and many members take pride that “the Church is the same all over the world” without asking how much sameness is desirable or even tolerable. The character of Church organization has […]
[…] spiritual documents that have continually shone when man was lost in darkness. Should there be one single world religion? Is it confusing for man to be sur rounded by varieties of religions and types? […]
[…] of religion and the history of philosophy. McMurrin treats ideas not merely as landmarks in a particular world view but as entities that have a life of their own. The genius of his particular […]
[…] submitted to the quorums, orders, and councils of the church and also to the delegations sitting in World Conference for their action on it as embodying the word and will of God. Many refinements […]
[…] great school our heavenly Father has instituted for the benefit of his children” (9: 370). Though the world might decry the lack of formal training, “we are not as ignorant as they are [because] […]
[…] and a blurb announcing it as “the epic saga of a woman who dared to search the world for love.” Such commercial packaging is per haps misleading, but certainly no real dis traction. A […]
[…] the phone, locked it against my ear with my shoulder, and continued to read the already stale news. “Hello,” I said. It was Evan Francis, first counselor in our ward bishopric. “How are you?” […]
[…] history and doctrine at Brigham Young University, has written a history of Mormon ism in Ohio in the 1830s. He appears to have consulted virtually all of the primary sources pertinent to his subject. […]
Search for Sanctuary received the 1985 Francis M. Chipman Award from the Mormon History Association. A historical narrative, it describes a little-known aspect of the 1857-58 Utah War. Brigham Young sent men out […]
[…] most Americans, including Mormons, through their generation and into part of mine. But something touched my father in his early life and grew constantly in him until he and my mother were moved at […]