Mormon World View and American Culture
April 27, 2018[…] where for the first time in the history of the Church . . . we’re beginning to get the strength to .. . take the gospel to all the people . . . It […]
[…] where for the first time in the history of the Church . . . we’re beginning to get the strength to .. . take the gospel to all the people . . . It […]
[…] (1959) of Jesus von Nazareth, first published in 1956 by W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart. See Bornkamm’s introductory essay, “Faith and History in the Gospels,” pp. 13-26. In a modest sense, this should not be […]
[…] famous history workshop, with Leonard Arrington, Church Historian, and Davis Bitton, Assistant, setting the pace, not only writing books themselves but each serving as general editor of multi-volumed projects—Arrington of a new comprehensive history […]
[…] children is the non-LDS classic, by Sidonie Gruenberg, The Wonderful Way You Were Born. Available now in paper back, this remarkable book deserves its popularity because of its excellent text and charming illustrations. Gruenberg […]
[…] evidence of having stepped up the wedding dates after coitus. Among the Midwesterners, the tendency was to get married as soon as possible after pregnancy had been diagnosed (about two months after conception); whereas […]
[…] Yet no matter how he is portrayed, his influence is rarely contested. “Few reporters ever go from writing news to being news,” Susan Sheehan wrote in the New York Times Magazine of August 13,1972, […]
[…] When the day arrived, the objector was the only one to attend. Why do people give lip service to Church principles, practices and programs, but by their actions disavow them? Why do people accept […]
[…] reasoning for convention and personal judgment in the place of absolutes. In March 1874, after a year’s service, the school boasted an enrollment of 150 children and a library of 300 books, which Institute […]
[…] from a slightly alienated point of view. There is a kind of centrifugal tendency in most regional writing. It may begin in the peculiarities of Mormon experience, but it reaches out to ward wider […]
[…] In both churches the Apostles and First Presidency are “called” from among the priesthood leadership into full-time service. In the LDS church, these General Authorities enter into lifetime service. In the RLDS Church, the […]