[…] who criticize our position are hopelessly inconsistent because they have all been involved in translation and re search to increase knowledge of what the original texts may have said” (p. 3). His criteria for […]
This triumphant biography is very much what we would expect the official story of a beloved General Authority to be. It is the story of the good boy who grew better and better, of the…
[…] a director of the Toronto Dominion Bank of Canada, First Security Corporation, Mountain Fuel Supply Company, Bonneville International Corporation, and Deseret Management Corporation. He was a devoted Latter-day Saint. He was bishop of Cardston […]
[…] strict Anglo-Catholics within the Protestant Episcopal Church are quite striking. In the late 1830’s, writings of the English Tractarians on the independent spiritual authority of priests struck such men as William Adams, James Lloyd […]
Dear Sirs:
Boycotts at BYU have reached our ears here. Considering the official and unofficial discrimination at the “Y” in the past it is not unexpected. (Actually one boycott lead er was from a black LDS family in Oakland)….
[…] House of the Lord: A Study of Holy Sanctuaries, Ancient and Modern (Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1912), pp. 18, 99-100, 234-38; John A. Widtsoe, “Fundamentals of Temple Doctrine,” Utah Genealogical and Historical […]
[…] lace and silk around her dolls gave way to curiosity about the bundles of old letters and newspapers stored in a corner. She read them all. “A light had dawned upon me in that […]
Probably few people derive their religious beliefs or lack of them from the philosophy of religion. However, when viewed historically, it becomes clear that the philosophy of religion has greatly influenced religion in general and…
We probe and scrape and peel away the faded
Multicolored layers of a lifetime,
Like Schliemann
(Who ? Grandmother asks)
[…] other Christian churches is unfortunate. We have thus cut ourselves off from much perceptive and scholarly re search. McGovern’s book suggests a possible resolution of this problem that could be very valuable to Mormons. […]