The Magnitude of the Nuclear Arms Race
April 18, 2018[…] scale changes in our ability to do harm to each other. All of the explosives used in World War I amount to an estimated 1 million tons. Those explosives killed 8 million people with […]
[…] scale changes in our ability to do harm to each other. All of the explosives used in World War I amount to an estimated 1 million tons. Those explosives killed 8 million people with […]
When my two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Abigail, and I went to the hospital, I left the pie crusts and rolls I had mixed up that morning on the kitchen table along with the dress pattern I […]
[…] I didn’t marry a soldier under siege, or a man whose only way of dealing with the world is to turn it into stories.” “Hmm,” he said, taking a notecard from his pocket, Try […]
As anti-war demonstrations gained in size and frequency throughout the Western world during the Gulf War, it is doubtful that many Latter-day Saints took part, if experience during earlier conflicts is anything to judge […]
For some time now, especially since World War II and the shock and guilt evoked in the Western world by the virtual extermination of the European Jews, traditional Christian views of the role of […]
[…] why are they not chosen? Because their hearts are set so much on the things of this world” (D&C 121:34-5). God calls many of us, but we usually default on his label of “chosen” […]
This paper will examine the vision or purported vision of the angel Moroni to Joseph Smith on the night of 21-22 September 1823, announcing the location of the gold plates containing the Book of […]
Of the Protestant denominations vying for converts in western New York during the early nineteenth century, Methodism is rightly regarded as having made the greatest religious impress on the young Joseph Smith. Oliver Cowdery […]
[…] life, every minute of peace we can offer. They deserve it. They, in their over-optimism, created a world so indulgent and interconnected that it couldn’t help but break when resources ran out, but they […]
[…] that the sisters never intended to be read publicly not only opens the door to the little-known world of feminine relationships between Mormon and non-Mormon kin but also enables us to understand the historical […]