[…] factors; but it was unmistakable and genuine. He notes: In addition to anti-Klan editorials in the Deseret News, LDS leaders ex pressed their opposition to the Klan in directly through law-and-order exhortations at church […]
[…] curiosity, a desire to know, a certain teach able humility—all of which are prerequisites to a successful search for truth. They who seek must have courage, must love truth, and must be unafraid of […]
[…] to feel as well as to understand the awesomeness of the movement that gives us reason to search, to seek, to dream the impossible dream. It is too bad we are too often called […]
[…] opposition and surmounted tremendous obstacles. Early in their history Mormons were driven from state to state in search of an area in which they might worship in peace. Yet, as C. LeRoy Anderson dramatically […]
[…] tangentially or symbolically. The recent television series, Battlestar Galactica suggests Mormon elements throughout, as with the ongoing search for the planet Kobol. Yet there is little specifically related to LDS doctrines and teachings in […]
[…] missionaries thus inherited a difficult situation epitomized by an incident in 1949. As a result of teaching English classes, the missionaries were able to interest some professors at a local college in attending church. […]
[…] Sacrifice, now, was not glad, but grudging. In Winthrop House, in 1958, I was getting my morning news from The Harvard Crimson, often passed on from my younger brothers Owen and Nolan in Lowell […]
[…] to the development of churches and religions including Mormonism. They sometimes ask disquieting questions or bear unhappy news, but they generally play an important role in linking the real and the ideal. At their […]
[…] trek to Utah, and William Clayton. In his biographical introduction, Allen outlines the life of this 1837 English convert to Mormonism and his career as a clerk, scribe, and recordkeeper. Clayton’s contributions to Mormon […]
[…] for illuminating facts about Mormon affairs — editors of Gregg’s time and place were little concerned with news and local events, but rather with poems, stories, travel items, editorials, speeches, and, of course, advertising. […]