Edwin B. Firmage

Allegiance and Stewardship: Holy War, Just War, and the Mormon Tradition in the Nuclear Age

The present escalation in nuclear weapons technology between the United States and the Soviet Union has progressed beyond the point where any increase in such weaponry necessarily results in increased national security. It has become, in fact, the ultimate act of idolatry, a reliance upon technology, a false god which cannot save us but which will insure our destruction.

Hugh B. Brown: The Early Years

In 1969 Edwin B. Firmage taped oral history interviews with his grandfather, Hugh B. Brown. The following essay has been adapted from these memoirs, which will be published by Signature Books in 1988 as An Abundant Life: The Memoirs of Hugh B. Brown. 

Reconciliation

Introduction So we do not lose heart, though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day. (2 Cor. 4:16)  I come from a religious tradition that does not celebrate…

God: CEO or Master of the Dance?

Seeing the Stranger as Enemy: Coming Out

Reflections on Mormon History: Zion and the Anti-Legal Tradition