In his History of American Socialisms (1870) John Humphrey Noyes emphasized the equal importance of revivalism and socialism to the communitarian movement. “The Revivalists,” he wrote, had for their great idea the regeneration of the…
[…] mid-1960s by leaders of the LDS Church. (See First Presidency statement of 14 April 1969 and Church News editorials during the late 1960s and early ’70s.) If Church members whole-heartedly accepted these statements, one […]
[…] followed the gold rush to California; one each traveled to Utah and Oregon. Al though the common search for fuel, water, and pasture run through both volumes, two problems were unique to 1850. Most […]
Ever since the classic triumverate of the good, the true, and the beautiful was set up as the literary ideal, the good—meaning the virtuous or moral—has had less success than either the true or the…
[…] I am fully aware that if the Church as a body knew my present condition of both finance and health during this terrible winter that I do not think that their gifts of charity […]
[…] conduct alone. A willingness to speak out on appropriate public policy. One First Presdency statement decried the international arms race and specifically opposed basing the MX missile system in the Utah-Nevada desert. Another opposed […]
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[…] usually probe for the coherent theme in Paul’s the ology, but I failed to find the same search in Anderson. J. Christaan Beker, professor of biblical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, discerns it in […]
[…] ever-present audience, the financial considerations of feeding a small army three times a day, and the elusive search for purpose in life, recreate the social realities of living in large families in the 1980s. […]
[…] then on I am continually aware that she leaves more unsaid. It is apparent that McCloud’s re search is superficial and incomplete, sometimes causing her to make false assumptions. For example, Ellis returns to […]