Mythology and Nuclear Strategy
April 18, 2018[…] Jerusalem. Our task now is to envision those walls fashioned not out of bombs but out of mutual agreements to ban omnicidal weapons. Appeals to reason alone will not achieve this goal. It must […]
[…] Jerusalem. Our task now is to envision those walls fashioned not out of bombs but out of mutual agreements to ban omnicidal weapons. Appeals to reason alone will not achieve this goal. It must […]
[…] generated particularly confusing perplexities. Muslim communities have long histories of resistance to Christian intrusions. Unlike other great world religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, Islam was a bearer of civilization to far-flung regions of […]
[…] origins and development of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been penned and published. In many cases, controversies about LDS historical topics have spilled over into the national press. In the […]
[…] meant,” writes Westermann, “is personal community of man and woman in the broadest sense—bodily and spiritual community, mutual help and understanding, joy and contentment in each other” (1984,232). A major theme of the Genesis […]
[…] herself to write what must be written only after hedging with news of her birthday, the weather, mutual acquaintances, and her plans for the summer. Salt Lake, Utah June 19, 1907 Dear Friend Hugh:— […]
I found this philosophical bit by Chip Janis in In the New World (1988), a little book of poems put together by young Indian students at the Pretty Eagle School and St. Charles Mission […]
[…] the Red Cross, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and other eco-movements. Generalized Christian notions of charity, partnership, stewardship, and mutual dependency form the guideposts of these organizations; they are the inheritors of general Christianity in Western […]
[…] reprinted in Joseph Fielding Smith, Blood Atonement and the Origin of Plural Marriage (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1905; repr. Deseret News Press, 1950), 97-101; cf. Bennett, History of the Saints, 241-50; F. […]
Membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is expanding rapidly. As the church passes the ten-million member milestone, social science researchers have raised a number of important questions about the rapid […]
[…] owe a debt that the “little things” of life, the day-to-day knowledge of God’s blessings in the world, were retained along with the sweeping stories of liberation and peoplehood. The wisdom books are part […]