Being Mormon: An LDS Response
April 18, 2018[…] the foundation for my absolute trust in him. It also affects my relationship with the rest of humanity. First of all, by this exalted standard of love I have measured every scripture and every […]
[…] the foundation for my absolute trust in him. It also affects my relationship with the rest of humanity. First of all, by this exalted standard of love I have measured every scripture and every […]
[…] in the ministry of reconciliation, in the strengthening of the international order, and in a change of human mentality. Implicit here was also a kind of grace period. A definite stand on possessing these […]
[…] El Salvador, arms sales to the world, intrusions into the Middle East for economic reasons, indifference to human rights, and the additional deployment of nuclear weapons to Western Europe. In addition, these same unscrupulous […]
[…] “He builds nuclear weapons.” No one in Richland builds bombs. People here only teach school, fight fires, design containment vessels or waste dumps, weld piping, test the water or air for contamination, monitor storage […]
[…] abortion orthodoxies by their dialects. Pro–choice itself is a euphemism devised to hide the destruction of the human fetus. “Political language,” Orwell said, “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and […]
[…] added information never previously recorded. When Wilford Woodruff acceded to the presidency, Thatcher’s opinion had placed “ human smartness and business ability as above that simplicity of character and susceptibility to divine impressions” notable […]
[…] a copy of the Ten Commandments to be posted on public classroom walls, forbidding the teaching of humankind’s evolution from lower animals, and allowing church governing bodies to veto applications for liquor licenses within […]
[…] approaches to the history of the world and the Church that could be particularly illuminating for all humankind, he ended with a brisk challenge capped with a brilliant inversion of a classical Mormon adage: […]
[…] son, Carl. I taught during these years at BYU as well: introductory sociology, social problems, cultural anthropology, human ecology, social statistics, race relations, and courtship and marriage. After three years of teaching and a […]
[…] argues from premises that some of us may find persuasive because of our training in literature or humanities: that, like other forms of art, literature is “a form of consciousness” (1970, 44) and that […]