The High Price of Poetry
April 18, 2018[…] the breeze. On one occasion, my playful older brother Alan had taped a picture of Der Filhrer over the image of our flag. I saluted reflexively, then reacted with horror and apoplectic anger at […]
[…] the breeze. On one occasion, my playful older brother Alan had taped a picture of Der Filhrer over the image of our flag. I saluted reflexively, then reacted with horror and apoplectic anger at […]
[…] mention by Browning and Tanner. Although the following essay is largely impressionistic, it is the fruit of over twelve years of membership in the Church. A good part of this time was spent reflecting […]
[…] autonomy to the state.ย The Confessing Church leaders, arguing from the belief in the lordship of Christ over all of life, insisted that the possession of nuclear weapons was totally incompatible with the Christian […]
[…] institutions, they did not erase the assumption that a single power might โ perhaps should โ rule over all. Nor did they erase the image of the man who was God. In some subtle […]
[…] in 1898 of selective pacifism, a practice that was abandoned following an internal conflict in the church over Mormon participation in the Spanish-American War.ย The Mormon theological aspects of pacifism were first discussed by […]
[…] of Washington, Warren, Montgomery,โ then goes on to praise these heroes of the Revolution who yet watch over nineteenth-century patriots. Beside the firstย words, vestiges of โThe American Starโ remain in โHosanna to God and […]
[…] words and interpretations of human beings, even priests, even authorities, from the ways of God โ not for his own status or glory or advancement, but to help even those who are scorning and […]
[…] and hundreds of newspapers and magazines. One socialist newspaper, the Appeal to Reason had a circulation of over three quarters of a million readers.ย The development of a socialist movement in Utah paralleled national […]
[…] goldseekers. Kimball writes:ย Clayton provided, above all things, conciseness, accuracy, and practicality. He had furthermore, personally been over the route two times. He did not clutter up his pages with philosophical musings, fine writing, […]
[…] in the academic journals, Mormon Enigma holds much satisfaction and some surprises. They have followed its development over the past several years since its authors came among them, relative neophytes, ready to learn their […]