[…] He always denied the same to friend and foe alike, but they would not believe him. The world claimed that he stole one Solomon Spaulding’s manuscript and from that concocted out of the said […]
[…] brethren they would live to see the Savior and would participate in the great work of the world’s closing scenes. And Apostle John Henry Smith, less than ten days before the Manifesto, told a […]
[…] tide . . . an exhilarating sense of discovery, a utopian hope that women might change the world.” Laurel Thatcher Ulrich With the recent momentous reduction of the minimum age for female missionaries, the […]
[…] streets of one of Africa’s biggest slums—Mukuru, Nairobi, Kenya—while on an assignment with the Community of Christ-sponsore WorldService Corps in summer 2000, that I was first struck by the enormity of the world’s problems […]
[…] Ally said, “And he gave it all up to work in a factory fourteen hours a day breaking up steel, seven days a week, giving his wages to Grandpa so there’d be firewood come […]
[…] the other way around, the adaptation of the doctrines and practices of the Mormons to the secular world in which they live. Several events of intellectual importance have taken place during these 72 years. […]
[…] adequately the extent and difficulty of the challenge entailed in the Christian ideal of being in the world but not of the world. We find it too easy to be both. We are deceiving ourselves, […]
[…] once directed by an organization — the Council of Fifty — and an aspiration — imminent theocratic world government — which contemporary Mormons have scarcely heard of. Britton argues that Mormons in general were […]
[…] everything this year, even my son’s wedding, and I couldn’t walk out of the Federal Building without breaking my ankle. I’m scheduled to leave for Ireland in less than five weeks; all my plans […]
[…] their history and faded greatness. It is sobering to find them complacent and accepting of their fallen world position, they, the heirs of Churchill, seemingly apathetic, clinging to vestiges of a way of life […]