[…] call themselves “creationists.” They believe in a God who has overseen the creation of this and other worlds, and they believe that the universe, earth, and humans all have some transcendent purpose. A reasonably […]
[…] particular way of looking at the universe. Magic perceives the supernatural as inseparably interwoven with the material world while the pure “religion” of definition divorces the two, separating them into distinct dimensions. Magic detects […]
[…] EI Islam, . . . a restoration by revelation of the pure and primaeval religion of the world” (p. 383). Meyer observed that “both Mohammed and Joseph Smith considered their revelations to be in […]
[…] them, tossing the little ones into the air. Marie Darger remembered “a big mountain of a man” breaking down and weeping at the grievous irony that his “protection” had inflicted such pain on them […]
[…] would reveal “the great mysteries of the kingdom and the Salvation of Israel’s God to a dying world.” Ball was most likely the first African American to be assigned a lineage through Joseph, one […]
[…] Luther made the same points, he said, “I got to break.” He said, “No, Luther, I’m not breaking with you.” James Buchanan, another great figure, held on as long as he could, and then […]
[…] He told his daughter Susa that even if she were to become the greatest woman in the world but fail in her duty as wife and mother, she then would have “failed in everything.” […]
[…] and on, in Mex ico and Cuba. I’m as attached to them as any place in the world. In 1956, I enlisted in the Green Berets along with two other Mormon boys. Soon thereafter […]
[…] thought only. Mormonism has much to say about history, philosophy, and the dynamic trends within the modern world. The Book of Mormon, for example, which relates the history of two major cultures upon the […]
Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon cannot quite be described as “ground breaking.” It covers ground, the editors acknowledge right up front, that has been broken many times before. In their introductory essay, […]