[…] Book of Mormon. After Martin Harris lost the manuscript book of Lehi, the Prophet did not “start over” again by translating the Small Plates of Nephi to take the place of the lost manuscript […]
[…] the Relief Society. Such lapses can be forgiven in the face of Turner’s accuracy on other topics over which other reporters have stumbled. Turner has good perspective on the church’s relation to the political […]
[…] 40. The Willie and Martin handcart companies, never able to count their casualties with accuracy, lost well over 200 people. If the nerve and endurance and faith necessary to break the Western wilderness had […]
[…] never thrown any votes anywhere; he is only handicapped if his party fails to win a majority over all the other parties put together—like Johnson or Wilson or any other parliamentary executive. Tixier’s doctrine […]
The argument over censorship and pornography is necessarily a muddled one. The factors involved are matters of taste and principle which do not lend themselves to simple logical treatment. The matters of taste concern […]
[…] observation of women, and a wide variety of other stimuli. For the women’s part, questionnaire replies from over 400 college and normal school women graduates nearly 40 years ago listed what things were most […]
[…] of the most prominent tenets of Mormonism emphasizes moral purity as essential to the Christian life. Self-mastery over physical appetites and passions is regarded as a fundamental aspect of the doctrine of eternal progression; […]
[…] a Roman Catholic on the Democratic ticket. Because of the fact that President McKay not only presides over the Mormon Church, but is also considered by faithful Mormons to be a “prophet, seer, and […]
[…] several times and put all our odds and ends on the table where we could pick them over for our mutual amusement, down to the last snarl of twine and thought. Somewhere in the […]
[…] simply isn’t space for telling everything. An example is my story of the first photo reconnaissance flight over Berlin, which was an article in a national magazine, a chapter of a book, and made […]