[…] contents are of the same genre. These publishers are simply supplying the needs of the only existing market. They did not make the market. If, thwarted at home, the Mormon creative writer driven by […]
[…] tumble youth; of his admirable struggle for education; of his fight with the Church to get into politics; of his role in the struggle for statehood; of his dramatic losing battle with the United […]
[…] are indeed God’s Elect, His Chosen People. Our eyes are focused on the horizon of an advancing stock market, our hearts are filled with the love of financial security, and our lives are dedicated […]
[…] gram for training women in matters of health, in economics and business affairs, in literature, and in politics. The women were trained to support the men, to be sure, but also to be self-reliant, […]
[…] its social concomitants, “Mormon culture” is almost entirely derivative. What could be more pretentious than to assert that today “Los Angeles and New York are as important subsidiary centers of Mormon culture … as St. […]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sees both God and man in a temporal, that i§^ historical,’ context, but it has developed no authoritative, systematic statement of the philosophical implications of historical […]
[…] birth control: the willful regulation of the number and/or spacing of children. This is a widespread practice today, especially in the western world, and most population specialists argue that considerably greater control of this […]
[…] great lengths to rationalize them have allowed the gospel perspective to be overshadowed by indifference or partisan politics. The gospel allows for neither of these responses, for the Christian’s duty is to counter corruption […]
[…] system that was far more dynamic than many of his spiritual descendants recognize. Mormonism is so successful today, not because it remains the religion nineteenth century farmers knew, but because it has easily undergone […]
[…] from Monte McLaws’ doctoral dissertation, Spokesman for the Kingdom is a terse, well-researched biography of the Deseret News and Mormon journalism from 1830 to 1898. The book is thematically organized around the topics of […]