[…] blind us to the really crucial need for improvement in the caliber of our public servants. I am tempted to suggest that given the complexity of our problems we are an underdeveloped country when […]
[…] might gain in the ability to govern myself—but too often their actions outshout their words and I am forced to conclude they are no wiser in governing themselves than am I. They seem to […]
[…] me begin by admitting that my title, and perhaps my entire paper, begs a major philosophical question. I am well aware of the age-old debate over the reality of free will. I am aware of […]
[…] life, to cope with the unknown, to deal with uncertainty, to find answers to ultimate questions: Who am I? Does God exist? Why do men suffer? Moral questions seem to be of secondary concern […]
Appreciation is overdue for a Mormon who had the insight and courage to revive a Hebraic viewpoint toward Jesus’ relationships with women. Orson Hyde, the President of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, in a […]
A man of men to thee, a seer of thine to men lived here; lives; shall live.
[…] impact he had upon the lives of individual members. My own experience is only one example. I am sure he influenced different members in different ways, but for me three memories have special significance. […]
[…] in 1964, following President David O. McKay’s dedicatory prayer. My heightened spiritual sensitivity was partly due, I am sure, to the power of that prayer and my special feelings about President McKay—but also to […]
[…] the best things in human experience foreshadow it, but beyond that I’m not willing to go. I am often surprised at the convictions of others. Not too long ago, I heard an earnest young […]
[…] informing his sons of events at first hand before they could read about them in the Deseret News, which the father faithfully had follow them wherever they went: news about crops, mining, new settlements, […]