[…] Youthful Opposition (Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1969); Philip Slater, The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point (Boston: Beacon Press, 1970); David Burner, Robert D. Marcus, and Thomas R. West, A Giant’s […]
[…] and he did not want them to dance with them, and he did not approve of the breaking down of the color line because anything that breaks down the color line leads to marriage” […]
[…] American conservatives and Latter-day Saints saw as an opportunity to intervene in the creation of a new world order. Mormon history scholars K. Mohrman and Taylor Petrey have both described a new global order […]
[…] wives, advising him “to exercise great care so as to avoid having the appearance at least of breaking the law.” Despite the testimony of all members of the First Presidency in October that the […]
[…] Clark, Jr., whose many years of service in the State Department gave him a broad exposure to world politics. In 1936 the two counselors joined with President Heber J. Grant to issue the first […]
[…] has doubled every fifteen years or less since 1945, a non-LDS sociologist projects Mormonism will be a world religion of 265 million members within 90 years. For more than a century the LDS church […]
[…] a session of general conference. He intended to preach several discourses, he said, and as the Deseret News observed the following week, “the Holy Ghost upon in great power, while he revealed some of […]
[…] Xlllf., 25ft.; or the melting down of scrap-metal for re-use, Manichaean Psalm-book, II, 11; or with the breaking of an egg that a more perfect form might emerge, Clementine Recognitions, iii, 27-29; cf. The […]
[…] administered by wise leaders. The church’s increasing public relations efforts also helped reshape the Mormon image. Post- World War II codifications of journalistic objectivity, which mandated presenting both sides of an issue, may also […]
[…] Western experience believe that except in France, contraception was uncommon before the nineteenth century. Within the Christian world, public morality almost unanimously condemned such practices as interference with Divine will. In early nineteenth century […]