In the west door for kings alone swung wide, the leather-padded wicket, left behind me stifling a gasp, expired. No more fresh air: I had entered the dim, mouldy, hollow hush of a dead […]
[…] beyond Joseph Smith, cautious of anything that was not scriptural, and not readily adjusting to an on-going world). This attitude has directed the Reorganized Church toward Protestantism, as manifested in its professional priesthood, the […]
[…] Accountability is the power of the person to govern his behavior within the framework of his own world of experience and limited by his physiological handicaps. Within that range of behavior which is not […]
The Mormons is the second in the Freedom to Worship series designed to tell stories of “outstanding Americans of the nineteenth century and their different religious beliefs.” The series is intended to fit […]
STEPHEN carries secrets he hasn’t had time to decode, takes his clues from me as I search for signals myself,
The bend, sharp thrust, and color Of this land abide the centuries Unchanged. Earth keeps another time Than man, and soon and late inters Each vanished traveler in her dust.
In 1945, while Belle Spafford was serving as a counselor in the general Relief Society presidency, a rumor circulated that Church auxiliaries would be reorganized and that future presidents would serve a specified term […]
[…] us if we could become more comfortable with ourselves. On the other hand, forty years in the world show me that smiles are cheap enough (have they not been painted on every souvenir in […]
[…] character of God and man’s place in the universe. This is illustrated in the Scriptures of the world religions over and over again. In the Tao Teh King, the classic scripture of Taoism, for […]
Since previously exposing myself in a sometimes quite personal way in this column I have had the heady and maybe trying experience of having some readers wishing to engage in a dialogue with me […]