Leaders to Managers: The Fatal Shift
April 19, 2018Twenty-three years ago on this same occasion I gave the opening prayer in which I said: “We have met here today clothed in the black robes of a false priesthood … ” Many have […]
Twenty-three years ago on this same occasion I gave the opening prayer in which I said: “We have met here today clothed in the black robes of a false priesthood … ” Many have […]
[…] accusation of provincialism was as much to be feared as a comment on China from Ronald Reagan or almost any co ment by Interior Secretary Watts. English departments were just discovering that the creations […]
[…] chronicles the Mormon struggles with such intertwined issues: faith-priesthood healing confronted with man’s medicines; (and which medicines? —man-designed or natural?); the role of sin or devil-possession in causing disease; the “eternal laws” governing health […]
A new Mormon poetry is beginning to emerge from the shadow of traditional, more bardic Mormon verse. Peeping about in the bright sun, blinking a bit and rubbing its eyes, it shows itself in poems […]
[…] a few of the many intriguing questions suggested by the life and work of these “career apostates” —individuals who have devoted their lives to the task of trying to destroy a faith in which […]
The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won’t do. Hitler . . . […]
[…] Chicago in 1863. Since I live in St. Louis County, I have for years, off and on —mainly off—addressed myself to the task of finding out more about the mummies/ papyri during their Saint […]
Every art and science known and studied by the children of men is comprised within the Gospel. President Brigham Young, 1868 (JD 12:257) Beware of false science. Priests Study Course, 1973 (Series B, p. 79) For three […]
Do you think that a fellow could grasp more of the wickedness of if he had an education? Buckshot Morgan (In Ginger 1958, 109) The conflict between creationism and evolution in the past few years has […]
The Restoration movements have tended to elevate historical claims to the level of theological dogma. But in our defense of historical beliefs we have often denied the reality of historical process by asserting that ideas,…