In a preface to Lore of Faith & Folly, William A. Wilson observes that while few states possess Utah’s abundance of folklore, few have been more reluctant to collect and study their traditions. With the…
[…] occurred. There was also considerable use of the principles and methods of psychology and sociology in studying human behavior and institutions that were relevant to the above studies. Each book of the New Testament […]
When so many biographies of early Mormons are made immaculate (and superficial) by filial piety, it borders on the tragic when an historian seeking to write an objective life of Sidney Rigdon fails in many…
[…] every other facet of their lives in order to be able to throw a discus 198’8″, or design lunar landing components or medical computers, this world would soon lose the variety that makes it […]
[…] clergyman can use each other as resource persons without competitive concern. In the enormous middle ground of human experience and relations, mutual respect and cooperation between the psychiatrist and clergyman enlarge the calling of […]
[…] long suffering, kindliness, forgiveness and the other virtues that are so necessary in the regeneration of the human soul. No greater respect have I ever received as a bearer of the priesthood than I […]
[…] it means that it is entirely dissolved, decayed; then it is no longer to be reckoned a human soul” (p. 411). Sin is the opposite of righteousness, for a righteous soul is healthy and […]
Since previously exposing myself in a sometimes quite personal way in this column I have had the heady and maybe trying experience of having some readers wishing to engage in a dialogue with me via…
There has been one and one only perfect moment
when the awful machinations of chance completely and smoothly meshed,
each part moving in single precision,
when the intricate multiplicity of myriad circumstance,
[…] well as more therapeutic to have them exposed to some males who are carefully selected models of human decency and high ethical concern. In mentioning all of this, I still recognize that it does […]