[…] ten are devoted to polygamy, while three chapters of the eleven are headed “A Kingdom of This World” and talk about government and the military, land business, industry, and finance. Another chapter discusses the […]
[…] and hell as found in most other Christian churches. The Levites’ ideal is to avoid the outside world, but they desire to be well informed about its affairs. Many “worldly” recreational activities are considered […]
[…] great wave of Irish emigrants to America in the spring of 1832. While cholera swept the Old World, millennialists in America watched for harbingers of the awaited second advent of Jesus Christ. Cholera fit […]
The sensibility described by Amy Lowell—that there is something odd about women who write serious poetry—is still given substance today by the endangered state of the species. Even I will not waste time […]
Among the things Mormon brought into the spotlight by the Sonia Johnson affair, perhaps the least well understood was the LDS notion of “excommunication.” To non-Mormons the process seemed, in Phil Donahue’s widely heard […]
[…] the Church cannot easily write off proselyting in Indonesia. It is the fifth largest nation of the world after China, India, Russia, and the United States of America. It has bounteous natural resources, including […]
[…] always be explained in these terms and hence interpreted according to this view of the way the world is. Part of what makes Foster’s view of such things distinctive is precisely its avoidance of […]
[…] she described as “both national . . . and personal problems,” Fawn turned inward to the “fantasy world of literature.” During what she characterized as “the three most rewarding months of study of my […]
[…] was especially interested in Jungian psychology. Her study of eastern mysticism led her to think of the world in terms of balance and harmony. To her an excess of patriarchy in the Church upset […]
[…] for more than five seconds he just goes crazy. You’d think it was the end of the world.” “It sounds like it,” Pancha said, trying for something neutral. Pancha hadn’t been alone with her […]