[…] movement of private Church members in the Armed Forces or in business as well as by administrative design; and the gradual acknowledgement that somehow theology and practice must take into account those outside the […]
[…] however, must be set off against the concept of a Golden Age at the beginning of the human story. Some years ago the Priesthood studied a book based upon the notion that the beginning […]
[…] out of these people. Then there had been the years in the armed forces. Daily demonstrations of humanity’s willful depravity imprinted the conclusion on my mind that living the Gospel commandments was the superior […]
[…] be taught in a frame work that emphasizes its spirituality. It is a distortion of sexuality in human beings to act as if it were merely a matter of anatomy and physiology.” It is […]
[…] . The notes tumbled easily from the very soul of him.” So besides being the emblem of human goodness, Rich also comes to symbolize, and perhaps symbolized even in David’s childhood, a sort of […]
[…] and to know one’s identity. And, on a deeper level, both peoples were responding to that basic human need to locate their identity in some kind of universe that was logically consistent with their […]
[…] Of course this imposition by a group is not just inevitable; it is the very condition of human existence. As inevitably, the Mormon writer brings his unique experience to probe and define the complexities […]
[…] a penetrating and often profound way. Having a “subject”—in other words focusing on a significant aspect of human experience—is what distinguishes Frost in the Orchard from most Mormon fiction. Too many writers in the […]
[…] to measure its mass. But a clouded sky stretched over those people, that land. As in all human endeavor, strong men can survive, but it takes a good man to live. There were good […]
[…] now live an “either/or” existence which is less than satisfying and which diminishes the richness of the human experience. The separation of mind from body, spirit from matter, subject from object can be subsumed […]