[…] and that Latter-day Saints continue to believe in the eventual realization of Zion through Church participation in the world of business and government. In another important work, Quest for Empire, Klaus J. Hansen wrote that […]
Unfortunately but undeniably, the practice of polygamy is closely associated in the popular mind with the Mormons, fascinating both scholars and casual readers, generating a plethora of anecdotal studies, and resulting in many oversimplifications […]
It is a morning flight. We have gained altitude and are somewhere over the Colorado Rockies. Below, through breaks in the clouds, a thin film of early snowfall covers the mountaintops like a veil. […]
[…] technical. Boyd appears to make several claims in his letter. One of these is that the real world of active scientific research is far from the serene, polite image popularly held. He claims that […]
[…] timely discussion of the way the Church has treated musics of other cultures as it has spread world wide. The current music committee should take note of the numerous times, documented here, when the […]
[…] grandfather does not try to coerce God into pacts or bargains. I like his patience with the world and his desire not for power or control or even justification, but merely for graciousness when […]
[…] a more useful precept than that originated by Rene Descartes. From Descartes’ time to our own, the world has been awash with the weighty thoughts of competing philosophies—many of them ridiculous and some downright dangerous. […]
I have written this letter to you before and I will write this letter to you again. In it I tell you that the days are starkly blue and unbearably warm, that the cooling storms
The picture gathers from a host of things— From giggles of remembering, not play By play but one word lifting from another Into a rearview record, a happy weather
[…] have produced what in any other religious tradition would be classified as theological apologetics. Many defenses of the LDS faith have challenged the core thesis of Evangelical counter-Mormonism that Mormons are not Christians. Some […]