In 1930, when B. H. Roberts published his six -volume Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter–day Saints, learned journals were silent. But he himself, with pardonable pride, had described his […]
[…] which sometimes causes irreparable brain damage in children. Blacks in ghettos experience a gradual erosion of their humanness. They are not aware of a past of which to be proud and often have little […]
[…] depict Mormons—as cardboard stereotypes, perfect, flawless, sexless and gutless? Don’t the Jews realize that to put real human beings with real human problems into their books will destroy their public image? Apparently they’re not […]
[…] own voice in 1953, wrote: I was an abnormally terrified, serious, and studious child. Living far from human settlements and not entering school until I was about twelve, I learned to read at a […]
[…] . . . , so the partizans in this county, who expect to divide the friends of humanity and equal rights, will find themselves mistaken—we care not a fig for Whig or Democrat; they […]
[…] nations of the earth. But they found that however divine their commandments, these commandments were implemented by human beings acting in keeping with the best light they possessed. The RLDS Church, therefore, worked toward […]
[…] our religion and present student radicalism; they ex press a basic faith in the godly potential of human beings. Another analogy is seen in Mormon community theory. Our religion is a kind of enlarged […]
[…] my answer had to be “No.” The commandments in modern scripture, the vision of perfect love in human relations, of unconditional regard for the welfare of others at whatever sacrifice to the self is […]
[…] thoroughly secularized. And, in what seems more and more an inevitable consequence, the liberal arts tradition of humane education there is dead and the community is fragmented. At Stanford there was generally the freedom […]
[…] had been banned by Danish kings for centuries and where men “cannot even achieve the minimum of human virtue because of their poverty,” Mormonism came as a rescue and refuge to innocents like Steinar […]