My earliest memory of my Bluebird class in Primary is cross -stitching a sampler: “I will light up my home.” Our teacher admonished us to embroider carefully because we would want our samplers to […]
[…] of the glasses merely, the spectacles in question being altogether too large for the breadth of the human face (Charles Anthon letter to E. D. Howe, 17 Feb. 1834, in Mormonism Unvailed, p. 17). […]
[…] God and the book of Job would not have been written. And its value is beyond any human calculation. It was part of the Lord’s plan for the mortal world to follow. The eternal […]
[…] only two bishops, Edward Partridge and Newel K. Whitney. They were “general bishops” whose jurisdiction was Church -wide, although they were also assigned regional responsibilities. Their place in church or stake organization was uncertain, […]
[…] reasoned answers to probing queries about the gospel. It is equally significant that, whether by default or design, his successor was Joseph Fielding Smith who renamed the series “Answers to Gospel Questions” and proceeded […]
[…] Kushner contradicts him self. In one chapter he defends the idea of agency and its part in human experience: “The murder and the robbery . . . represent that aspect of reality which stands […]
[…] These families aren’t famous, even in Church circles. But we could identify with these representatives of the human foundation upon which Mormonism was built. We could envision our ancestors rubbing shoulders with these convert–emigrants […]
[…] disjointed and lack direct connections to Morris himself. This volume makes an important contribution to understanding the human experience. Throughout history varieties of religious millennialist movements have existed. To learn why people are attracted […]
[…] I began to hear, first faintly, then louder, P. A. Christensen’s resonant voice talking of “depth of human experience,” echoing Matthew Arnold’s concerns with “the best that has been thought and said in the […]
[…] land is home, the country where my heart is: A land of hopes, of dreams, of grand design; But other hearts in other lands are beating With hopes and dreams as true and high […]