[…] City’s non-Mormon population swelled into the hundreds—primarily males—and the next two decades were filled with violent incidents breaking out along religious lines of division. LDS leadership did not discourage this, but actu ally created […]
[…] dress and sexual chastity, despite the immediate press coverage of the talk, including publication in the Church News and in a series called “An Apostle Speaks to Youth,” subsequent general confer-ence talks, Church News […]
[…] opinions about its “officialness.” A search through the 1970s issues of the Ensign magazine and the Church News failed to turn up any official announcement. A spokesman from the First Presidency’s office “seemed to […]
[…] and power of God,” the translation of ancient records written in an unknown language and rendered into English, not by a translator who knows both languages, but by a seer who by the “gift […]
Hugh Nibley lives in a world of serendipity. As his son-in-law and intended biographer, I have discovered that, time and time again, he has miraculously avoided some catastrophe or dropped in on some fortunate […]
[…] one of our own, whose poems I believe stand among the finest. Some of these poems I read when they were published ten or more years ago; one, “Love Song at the End of […]
[…] Julie and her parents experience in El Salvador the reality that “we Gringos see on the 6:00 news: that world of wars and quakes and starvation and little brown people with desperate eyes who were […]
[…] very good reasons. They protect and maintain our psychic and physiologic integrity through time. For instance, the breaking of a taboo in the matter of abortion has proved to have devastating emotional consequences even […]
[…] the church, and if it is worthy to be the rock that will sweep through the world breaking down all other kingdoms before it and bringing man’s will back into line with that of […]
[…] in Mormon scriptures. B. H. Roberts, The Mormon Doctrine of Deity (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret News, 1908), pp. 95-96. Neal A. Maxwell. All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience (Salt Lake City: […]