Few states in the union had a longer or more bitterly contested statehood struggle than did Utah. Edward Leo Lyman has searched out and chronicled the detail, factors, and individuals which make up the drama […]
A Mormon is once again in the national spotlight, this time it’s Joanna Brooks who works to demystify Mormons on “On Being” with host Krista Tippett.
[…] were the ones having to do with looking for reasons to believe that would convince the whole world and compel everyone to believe. That was the wish of the Inquisitor, a wish implicitly repudiated […]
[…] be able to remember a time when there was not DIALOGUE? They will live in a richer world for its presence -— just as the world will be richer for their’s. I speak of […]
[…] he no longer has to go through the extraordinary agony, suffering for the accumulated sins of the world. He is free. She leads him from the executions on Golgotha toward a wooded area. A […]
[…] 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 […]