[…] most popular and exciting speakers, a missionary, theologian, journalist, and widely admired champion of Mormonism before the world; and Roberts’ day was a long one—for nearly forty-five years he served as a general authority […]
[…] God.[3] However severely they condemned sin the Puritans realized that living as they did in a fallen world, even they could not be absolutely certain about the state of their souls. Virtue could be […]
[…] Utah and the western United States as core focus, with the periphery consisting of the rest of the world. The exception would be well-organized and smoothly functioning church units in certain urban areas elsewhere in […]
[…] 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,” […]