[…] A fair edition, and of matchless worth, Tree from err at as, new in heaven set forth. —JOSEPH CAPEN, Lines upon Mr. John Foster. The literature surveyed for this quarter’s bibliographical essay is from […]
Books are no substitute for living, but they can add immeasurably to its richness. —May H. Arbuthnot, Children and Books If we accept the value Ms. Arbuthnot places upon books, the Mormon community is indeed […]
“Progress has been much more general than retrogression.” —Darwin, The Origin of Species (Chapter 5) Progress implies change and for this writer the call to explore new opportunities has become more insistent in recent years. […]
[…] will falsehood. It is actually no more or less than the men or women who use it. —Edward R. Murrow The Mormon Church is a formidable broadcast institution. Through subsidiary corporations and institutions it […]
[…] Church members have been proud of the fact that the church has been ordaining blacks into the priesthood since early in its history. Sometimes they have made unfavorable comparisons between RLDS policy and that […]
[…] a perverted gospel bringing a curse upon them that preach it, and upon them that hear it. —Parley P. Pratt (1838) An unfortunate and erroneous concept about the nature of authority is that only […]
[…] five seeds, planted in the Palmyra nursery of Mormonism, have grown the essential programs of the Restoration, a movement that has found embodiment in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or […]
The success of Mormonism’s “Word of Wisdom,” especially its prohibition of tobacco —in promoting Mormon health is now widely acknowledged. Mor mons have shown that they experience what medical science would predict from their […]
[…] and the Lord has said that “he makes them equal in power, and in might, and in dominion.” —Joseph Fielding Smith, 1956 (Doctrines of Salvation, 3:132) The importance of the endowment and such temple-associated rituals as […]
The Restoration movements have tended to elevate historical claims to the level of theological dogma. But in our defense of historical beliefs we have often denied the reality of historical process by asserting that ideas,…