[…] rational process of arriving at objective truth, namely the scientific method of testing and verifying the empirical world” (63). The long struggle at Brigham Young University to balance religion and scholarship has no chance […]
“ The earth turns, the sun rises. It’s quite simple.” We turned towards the high peaks to the east—cold, and still smooth and clean with snow, the half-circle of rising sun warming our faces. […]
[…] best-kept secret: its awareness of extraterrestrials and unidentified flying objects. That such a prominent figure in the world of journalism should stoop to such a subject will undoubtedly be wilder respectable people. That Ander […]
[…] identify, describe, and analyze the relationship between the “organizational characteristics of fundamentalist movements … and their changing world views, ideologies, and programs” (3). Three earlier volumes in the series set out to describe and […]
[…] “Okay. But just for a minute. Jared, why do you say it’s wrong?” “Because. God created the world. Out of dust. It wasn’t an accident.” Almost everyone nodded in agreement. A minuscule minority appeared […]
[…] senior class ring from Jordan High School, an old can full of buttons, and a photo of the two of us at my college graduation. The memories are gradually turning into anecdotes that I […]
At last, an absorbing sequel to Juanita Brooks’s momentous work, The Mountain Meadows Massacre. Just when Mormon church leaders and scholars alike were ready to accept that Brooks has the last, if not final, […]
[…] dressing near a window: wearing my mod Americanism loudly instead of keeping it covered. In my husband’s world, our interests, the details about our lives, belong to our families and are for their eyes […]
[…] chapters in which each author takes turns explaining his own position. Every chapter begins with an author breaking up his discussion into four sections: (1) what his own religious tradition believes about the particular […]
[…] us his thoughts on the role of the historian in interpreting to the Church and to the world the sacred history of the Latter-day Saints. We sat, literally and figuratively, at his feet, disciples […]