One is hopeful, upon reading Elder McConkie’s preface to his latest volume on the dealings of Christ with mankind, that new ground may be broken for Mormons in the recognition of modern findings and scholarship—the…
[…] Are we to subscribe to the fundamentalist “verbalinspiration” dogma that every word is dictated (in King James English) by the Holy Spirit, and that all of our received traditions and texts are infallible? Ironically, […]
[…] brush fires, manages a hotel, “fudges” at customs and effectively takes over for a father who must share his time among families. Readers should not expect to find a story of the trials borne […]
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…
[…] role of victim. And his church of Saints was created in his own image. Any serious psychoanalyst today would hesitate to jump to conclusions about what was going on in the innermost recesses of […]
[…] been reiterated in such works as Joseph Fielding Smith, The Way to Perfection, Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1958, p. 106 and in John L. Lund, The Church and the Negro, 1967, pp. […]
[…] publications are correlated and many members take pride that “the Church is the same all over the world” without asking how much sameness is desirable or even tolerable. The character of Church organization has […]
[…] the Church as a corporate entity. For example, some of the more important include acquiring the Deseret News in 1900; purchasing historic sites beginning in 1903 and the gradual establishment of Bureaus of In […]
[…] weighted more toward understanding and less toward “honor,” the book might have been more useful. I have read Mormon women’s journals and letters, and found therein a rich diversity of tone, attitude, experience, perception, […]
[…] political editor, O. N. Malmquist, . . . regarded Lee as ‘a good governor.’ Conversely, the Deseret News’s incisive former political editor, DeMar Teuscher, believed that penny pinching in education unquestionably cost the state […]