Speaking in Church
April 25, 2018[…] to the manner of preaching, these at once cry: “Prepared sermons! sectarianism! that’s what we left the world to get away from. No, ‘Take no thought about what ye shall say’—that is the only […]
[…] to the manner of preaching, these at once cry: “Prepared sermons! sectarianism! that’s what we left the world to get away from. No, ‘Take no thought about what ye shall say’—that is the only […]
[…] mind. Nor is the “sharing of burdens” in depressed times an exclusively Mormon idea. Any Christian—indeed any American—could easily participate in the Church’s welfare programs today. But even the most devout Mormons far removed […]
[…] were possible to be more analytical about Dad and about his place in the Church and the world, to set him more in the context of the political changes, economic fluctuations, even the war […]
[…] led them from the pole corral. The merest gleam of sun had struck the far western peaks, breaking the blue of dawn into rose on great rocks and cliffs and slopes of brush and […]
[…] she argues, “it is also to turn her back on the major social problems that plague the world.” A few women resent this, but there is little they can do. In the only state […]
[…] a new and panoramic view of, a fresh insight into, Mormonism as a phenomenon in American and world history. The titles and authorship of the various books speak eloquently not only of Mormonism, but also […]
[…] confess that I would much prefer to die a natural death to being helped out of the world by the most intelligent graduate, new or old school, that ever scientifically flourished the wand of […]
[…] thickened by the screech, slam, purr and shove of traffic one nerve sent early warning, spun the world past your eyes, milking your fear of falling and scalding the Fall with fear; then that […]
“Marriner Eccles was American economic history,” says G. L. Bach in the foreword to this enlightening biography. Eccles’ life was an “extraordinary encapsulation in one man of the explosive changes” in business and government […]
[…] on. She had just seen her father’s grave for the first time, having been half across the world when he died. Then the house. And now the missing depot made her feel part of […]