[…] it with the period of church history from the time of Christ to the end of the world. Since the church was the antitype of Israel, it fulfilled all Old Testament prophecies of Israel’s […]
[…] faith is (Mormon) the Latter day Saints. We are living under capitalism and the wealth of the world is privately owned by individuals, . . . but this building is collectively owned by the […]
[…] by reflecting on some of the key experiences and major ideas that have shaped my philosophy. I am concerned here with the essential values at the core of religious experience, a state of mind […]
[…] the joy the gospel promises, as church membership becomes an intolerable burden and they finally reach a breaking point and begin to slip away. At that stage they are in danger of being judged […]
[…] by Christ and of the power God has granted his children to sanctify themselves by overcoming the world. In such a reality Latter-day Saints live, move, and have their being; it is their meat […]
[…] faculty known as reason? It is a faculty which, despite its ‘inferiority,’ is equal to whatever the world confronts us with. But how can these truths and signs strike our reason if they are […]
[…] Mormon literature and its enjoyment by all” announces that for him poetry ranks below humor in the world of Mormon letters. The near disappearance of verse in Mormon literature has been bewildering to those […]
[…] is a product of a modern American mind. Meanwhile the apologists find numerous parallels with the ancient world and conclude that the book could only have originated with ancient peoples. One often feels that […]
[…] president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, eagerly anticipated a Republican sweep. At the news of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s decisive win as the thirty-fourth American president, McKay was elated. “In my […]
[…] birth on the edge of the twenty-first century. I believed in the ontological truth that, despite my breaking family and my internal struggle to believe in Heavenly Father as I was taken geographically and […]