[…] 111). “Through the miracle of modern communication, [David Whitmer’s] testimony now transcends a community and confronts a world” (p. 90). Cowdery’s first missionary journey is “as spectacular as any of the apostle Paul” (p. […]
This is the saddest story I have ever told. Not because The Chevrolet is gone, but because it probably is not. This much is known. During the Christmas season of 1973, Gene and Charlotte […]
[…] by the vicissitudes of modernization to find a religious life which allowed them to cope with a world they did not like but could not change. They adopted a new world view which provided […]
[…] as I have done with all of the other books by the popular nonfiction Swiss author and world traveler, Erich von Daniken. He is known as the leading proponent of the “Gods were astronauts” […]
[…] with him, although he is its center. His gratitude for them binds him to them, to their world. The tension between the two worlds—the one of light and air, music and puffball clouds, the […]
[…] Christ of Latter-day Saints receives several hundred thousand column inches of space in national and local newspaper. News items range from the local LDS missionaries in the community to the major eight-part series on […]
From its early years on the social fringe,” U.S. News & World Report I recently told its readers, the Mormon Church “has become America’s largest and wealthiest home-grown religion by offering shelter in stormy […]
[…] the text. There were, to be sure, scholars who studied the biblical text as literature, like the English scholar R. G. Moulton at the end of the nineteenth century and the American Nils Lund […]
We were inside the world. The children were sleeping. Light fell through the window. One of us wore red.
There are different ways to look at the world; and faith and reason provide contrasting, sometimes complementary perspectives. Faithful people who equate their spirituality with Church loyalty often find themselves at odds with those […]