[…] magic that twentieth-century believers can live in an overtly rational culture but continue to satisfy the universal human hunger for a medley of magic and religion. Early Mormonism and the Magic World View by […]
[…] of vanity, greed, opportunism, and an insensitivity to the integrity so foundational to friendship and all honorable human covenants of trust. Hofmann had been utterly undeserving of the trust of others, yet wholly convincing […]
[…] the impossible balancing act, performed quarterly before your very eyes, of loving the Church and loving the human beings who make up that Church, of following leaders, of forgiving leaders, and of being leaders. […]
Mary Firmage, daughter of President Hugh B. Brown, has recently deposited a large collection of her father’s personal letters in the Church Archives. President Brown wrote part of this correspondence while he was mission president…
[…] Institution. He zealously threw himself into the effort. But he was again frustrated by the contradictions of human frailties, especially those of his leaders, compared to the human potential in which he so firmly […]
[…] religions and denominations especially need critics, since it is perilously easy to claim divine sanction for all-too- human naivete, error, and sometimes perversity. I fear that, given the elusiveness of the religious ultimate and […]
[…] it must remain itself, and it must breed its best. Within the white world, migrations of lower human types . . . must be rigorously curtailed. Such migrations upset standards, sterilize better stocks, increase […]
[…] day ” (1 Nephi 28:30-31). I have no quarrel with this argument. As a folklorist interested in human behavior, I am, to be sure, more concerned with the influence of the stories on the […]
[…] once, she seemed like a stranger, a typical Cohab Hollow girl after all, outside the bounds of human sympathy. While I was struggling with these impressions, Miss Jenkins, the teacher, pushed past me, accompanied […]
[…] to women; where he began with women studying for science, the professions, and “every other facet of human knowledge,” he ends by urging women to enhance their appreciation of the arts, especially music—so we’re […]