[…] and also during my eight years in the Cabinet.”13 Benson’s trip to Europe at the close of World War II intensified his radical thinking. During his tenure as the secretary of agriculture, he became […]
[…] and on, in Mex ico and Cuba. I’m as attached to them as any place in the world. In 1956, I enlisted in the Green Berets along with two other Mormon boys. Soon thereafter […]
[…] the Romantic poets in particular—is the idea that God reveals himself to the human most palpably in a natural setting: to experience the natural world in its wildness is to experience God in his wildness.
[…] by the burning of fossil fuels, the use of fresh water, increased rates of species extinction, the erosion of the ozone layer in the atmosphere, overfishing of the world’s oceans, and the destruction of wetlands.
As an offering in speculative theology, this paper reconsiders the current normative understanding of a male-only priesthood as presented in the Book of Mormon, specifically in Alma 13:1–20, and proposes that Alma presents a […]
[…] she said. He looked up, his face one of confusion and terror. There is more in this world than I ever understood. But I believe him. By hell, I believe him. I had to […]
[…] remembers in this context Gerard Manley Hopkins’s lovely allusion to the Holy Spirit who, “over the bent/ World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.”)[12] Even though recorded third-hand, the following account […]
[…] October, 1966, General Conference. The first is that of taking the message of the restoration to the world. “The other great purpose of the Church is to translate truth into a better social order […]
[…] cultural mainstream. Although successful missions were established among the Indians and especially among the Polynesians, it was nevertheless the English-speaking white Americans who gave the Church its leadership and set the tone of its culture.
Image history—how the Mormons were viewed by others—has been a fruitful approach used by several historians during the past decade.