[…] to why she doesn’t want to talk about Placement, about the rudeness of being thrust into another world as a ten year-old girl. Finally, when it seems obvious she does want to talk about […]
[…] America—to use language I learned in church—a “city on a hill,” an example to the big wide world my extended family came from, or was it “Babylon,” worldwide marketer of wickedness, where wrong was […]
[…] riot areas have been restricted almost entirely to black ghettos and the disorders have consisted mainly of breaking windows, looting, and burning retail establishments in the ghettos, owned mostly by whites living outside the […]
[…] ten are devoted to polygamy, while three chapters of the eleven are headed “A Kingdom of This World” and talk about government and the military, land business, industry, and finance. Another chapter discusses the […]
[…] of sophisticated communication and transportation facilities, the result of which is to bring the rest of the world and its problems literally into our living rooms. The above trends are also having considerable impact […]
For the most part, Mormons have been a socially homogeneous people. True, the initial Anglo- American stock was reinforced from time to time by immigrants from Western Europe, but these converts were quickly absorbed […]
[…] Seventy in 1888 and made its president in 1924, Roberts represented the LDS Church at the 1893 World Parliament of Religions and the 1933 World Fellowship of Faiths, both in Chicago. He also served […]
[…] the Roman governor that this wonderful Man, with His exalted views of a kingdom not of this world, and an empire of truth in which He was to reign, was no political insurrectionist.” Sixty-two […]
[…] members (and leaders), a lack of confidence between leaders and members, and the high social costs of breaking other cultural expectations. In all fairness, the LDS Church has worked in the past decades to […]
[…] urgency of writing contemporary history, Schlesinger made several points especially worthy of consideration here: (1) As the world changes more rapidly in modern times than ever before, what we perceive as the “past” is […]