[…] clears my mind so that I can examine dilemmas with a lucidity unmatched—except in the sauna. So over the years I have written dozens of personal essays (and hundreds of letters to the editor) […]
[…] balanced federal budget must precede a new economic upsurge. He soon came to conclusions, which he refined over the next several years, that we generally associate with John Maynard Keynes, who published his famous economic treatise […]
[…] the Church in unimagined ways. He would equate the decision to expand “the work of the Lord over the earth” as being of equal significance in scope and direction to that of Brigham Young’s […]
[…] is experiencing the highest rate of membership growth in the Church. In 1975 Mexico alone accounted for over twenty-two percent of the baptisms in the Church. That was with 21 thousand converts. In 1976 […]
In a recent address to a Regional Representatives Seminar, President Kimball stated— We asked last conference for all members to pray with increased sincerity for peace in all nations and especially China, and that […]
In Guatemala I saw Indians sitting by the side of the road dangling their feet over a cliff as they stared across the valley to the mountains beyond. The guide told me they often […]
[…] greater than all of the imaginings you could have of me.” I think Joseph must have been over whelmed, for he touched the source of love of all mankind and he heard the Son […]
[…] strong defense of evolutionary thought, and this from Deseret News Press just five years before the controversy over Roberts’ manuscript erupted. Nonetheless, the topic was very controversial. Three faculty members were dismissed from BYU […]
[…] both Utopians and realists were concerned with the means of preventing another world war, but they clashed over the best means. During this period, E. H. Carr, in his important study, The Twenty Years’ […]
[…] at Brigham Young University—Hawaii Campus and at the Area Conferences of Samoa, New Zealand and Tonga. For over two centuries people have discussed, written and argued about how the many islands of Polynesia, flung […]