Of Pleasures and Palaces
April 14, 2018[…] the first tree when Mother called them back to help with the packages. She always assumed the world owed her a living. Her motto was: Let everybody else do the world’s work and abide […]
[…] the first tree when Mother called them back to help with the packages. She always assumed the world owed her a living. Her motto was: Let everybody else do the world’s work and abide […]
[…] keep things in perspective, Kimball wrote on that day, “Priestcraft raged and devils howled but still the world turned on its axis.” On 6 January 1884, her commitment renewed, Mary went through with the […]
October 3, 1992, the first day of the 162d semiannual LDS general conference, was the 300th anniversary of the action that finally stopped the Salem witch trials. Those trials, perhaps the greatest blot on […]
[…] mercy on the efforts of human deity personified by Prometheus—reason, intelligence, and enlightenment—to wrest control of the world. Perhaps, in Zeus’ blind vengeance against Prometheus for bestowing fire on mortals, the ancient Greeks personified […]
[…] been reiterated in such works as Joseph Fielding Smith, The Way to Perfection, Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1958, p. 106 and in John L. Lund, The Church and the Negro, 1967, pp. […]
[…] I believe, a theodicy which can make a crucial contribution to Mormonism’s emergence as a mature, compassionate world religion, one able to contribute in important ways to God’s efforts to save all his children, […]
[…] refinement, expanded this idea in the Messenger and Advocate. In an article called “The Saints and the World,” published in 1836, he outlined the work of building Zion and posed a question: “Now let […]
Dialogue 36.4 (Winter 2003): 177–192 In this paper I will briefly discuss what I see as the six major differences between the two churches during the first century of their existence, and then I […]
[…] humankind sinks in time of war, but as an increasingly international church committed to sending missionaries into all the countries of the world, who could dispute the advantages if all those countries were at peace?
[…] at Carolyn, feeling a certain pleasure in having gotten her full attention. “I mean, what kind of world is it where people get by on dumb luck and good graces? Not a world I […]