[…] and at the same time a faithful believer, he exemplified the crucial possibility of being in the world but not of it for three decades. Despite his towering scientific achievements, he may yet be […]
[…] you will be successful in your work. We need more Mormon boys to go out into the world of business and scientific research to represent our ideal of living.”[2] Harvey Fletcher spent the next […]
[…] 75–88 Utah Mormons have had over a hundred years in which to systematize and institutionalize their beliefs. Institutionalized religion tends to expend its energies in conserving and promulgating the truths once delivered to the saints.
[…] and Ho Chi Minh. The twentieth century, the bloodiest and most war-crazed in the history of the world, has alone been responsible for combat in which “not less than 62 million civilians have perished, […]
Many Utahns may call the Utah War of 1857-58 “Johnston’s Army,” but the U.S. Army and most historians surely do not. It seems to me that this shorthand label for the war trivializes, personalizes, […]
[…] set of contradictions. Men should be steely, resolved, and assertive; women ought to be reserved, flighty, and, under the right conditions, sexually explosive. As historian Karen Lystra has observed, “There are no sexual absolutes. Sexual […]
[…] scholarship.[23] In 1938, Clark instructed Church educators that “You are not to teach the philosophes of the world. . . .Your sole field is the gospel.”[24] Ecclesiastical leaders who supported Clark’s positions became known as “Clark men,” […]
Fires were raging in the hills near Hearst Castle in the late summer of 2016. They spread and spread, consuming the Monterey pines and golden hills of the most remote area of the California […]
[…] God who acts in history. He led ancient Israel; He came to earth to re deem the world; he guides prophets in our time; and He helps individuals day by day with mundane problems. […]
[…] the other way around, the adaptation of the doctrines and practices of the Mormons to the secular world in which they live.[19] Several events of intellectual importance have taken place during these 72 years. […]