[…] reviewing one he goes on to alternately praise, chide, fuss, guffaw, gesture, delineate, evaluate and advise. “I am up to here with the self-righteous dietary morality characterizing too much of our Mormon literature,” he […]
[…] humility and the pervasive spirituality of these accounts raise the reader to insight and spiritual empathy. We live in a day when the inability of our youth and many adults to distinguish between genuine […]
[…] been transcribed onto paper, my wasting of water has been beneficial. I have maintained my sanity, I am still in the Church, and I occasionally have an interesting thought to add to a conversation. […]
[…] the phenomenal success of his book-turned-TV mini-series, Alex Haley described his work Roots as “faction,” a careful combination of history and fiction. Using what names, dates and places he could find in the records as a skeleton, he proceeded […]
[…] out with Science and Belief in God, a 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 […]
[…] “. . . he doth judge and make war.” Also the Lord said, “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I come not to send peace, but a sword.” Was […]
[…] what he thinks is the single “greatest” problem facing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today. “It is rapid growth,” responds President Kimball. “It is very difficult to keep up with the […]
[…] did he see in these doctrines that was so important, and how should we evaluate his reasons today? Someone of Madsen’s training ought to help us here, but he does not. Finally we come […]
[…] Alma 11:44. Sermon delivered at the funeral of Ann Tenora and George Callister; published in the Deseret News, 26 (March 21, 1877). Heaven and Hell: 65. Heaven and Hell: 47. Doctrine and Covenants 76:103. […]
[…] as well as chapels in Utah. The style became so popular in the Church that one Deseret News writer, evidently unfamiliar with Frank Lloyd Wright, wrote that the work of Pope and Burton “has […]