On the Mormon Commitment to Education
April 29, 2018[…] hear even graduate students talk of a thesis on some insignificant problem so as to “get it over with,” to “get the badge”—as if the badge were all, the process nothing, and the result […]
[…] hear even graduate students talk of a thesis on some insignificant problem so as to “get it over with,” to “get the badge”—as if the badge were all, the process nothing, and the result […]
<i>Dialogue 8.1 (Spring 1973): 78–86</i><br>Responding to Bush, Eugene England compared the story of Abraham which is uncomfortable for him calling it a cross, to the church wide policy of denying anyone who has black […]
[…] Gavras in Greece, Czechoslovakia and Uruguay. Repression to create unity is a violence and it often breeds counter-violence. The message of A State of Siege in demonstrating the alternative to legitimate political opposition is […]
[…] gaps and corners in the picture I already had of the Utah “Dixie” settlement and its spill- over into Nevada. The book concentrates on the later extension of the settlement into Arizona. A gratuitous […]
[…] stand in the way of their easy replacement—they must be disposable; b. have symbols with limited existence. Over the last several years, the Church has earned notoriety both in Utah and the rest of […]
[…] do by the help of the Lord; for he has decreed that his kingdom shall take ascendency over all other kingdoms under heaven. This attempt at cultural autonomy, particularly in its politically significant aspects, […]
[…] or partisan politics. The gospel allows for neither of these responses, for the Christian’s duty is to counter corruption in all its forms and to avoid neutrality on any moral issue. As Thoreau said, […]
[…] in a ward complaining they had no time to work on the chapel and no money to buy lumber, Kimball admonished, “Now you can’t build a church on bullshit. .. . If we get […]
[…] sweeping to be fully fathomed, too revolutionary to be easily accepted, but too well documented to be ignored, his concepts of evolution1 by natural selection have been hotly debated now for well over a century.
[…] terms requires an explanation, for Utopian or apocalyptic conditions imply the absence of politics, or the struggle over power, from the historical process. It is just such a peculiar—one might even say bizarre—incongruity which […]