Among the Mormons: A Survey of Current Literature
April 25, 2018[…] but as times go no man can be counted learned unless he is styled ‘Doctor.’ If the world is to believe in me, I must put on the lion’s skin. I have to fight […]
[…] but as times go no man can be counted learned unless he is styled ‘Doctor.’ If the world is to believe in me, I must put on the lion’s skin. I have to fight […]
[…] this objective. When he confronts events of great significance and magnitude—as, for example, the death of a world leader such as President Kennedy—he demands literary expression in order that his insights and feelings can […]
[…] found gold on reservation property, we killed more Indians, drew more treaties, and moved the fences. Our world never shrank as small as theirs, or changed so fast. They were only here first, and […]
[…] think he would have carried on both jobs had it not been for the earlier insult. When World War I broke out in April 1917, we had a very small professional army in the […]
[…] dominant in the Church, then we may just as well close up shop and say to the world that Mormonism is a failure.” Shortly before Elder Smith wrote to Commissioner West, Snell himself received […]
[…] great wave of Irish emigrants to America in the spring of 1832. While cholera swept the Old World, millennialists in America watched for harbingers of the awaited second advent of Jesus Christ. Cholera fit […]
[…] it, I have three alternatives: I can throw away my Mormon heritage (rejecting my personal history and breaking family ties); I can recant my heresy, and repent (giving up my academic and personal integrity); […]
[…] is natural for Mormons to think in terms of potential missionary activity in any part of the world. With the black revelation granting the priesthood to all worthy male members, interest in missionary work […]
[…] all is not well. Maoism has been partly successful in accomplishing the goal sought by McKay, the breaking down of the traditional Chinese value system. The many movements and campaigns conducted by the Communists, […]
[…] God shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea; and all the rest of the world will without exception be cut off; and when this is done, and all the rest of […]