[…] 1950s, he publicly declared the “Catholic Church” to be one of the “two great anti-Christs in the world” alongside communism. It is thus rather unsurprising that in 1957, McKay effectively cemented the cross taboo […]
[…] and more deaths. That is, all except the Mormons. As usual, the Mormons had a prearranged two-hour world-wide coverage for morning conference. A grieving, frightened world heard our Mormon leaders, in both opening and […]
[…] of Italicized Text). 8. 1 Corinthians 1:27 But For God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound […]
[…] strong contender for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1968, the popular Mormon exhibit at the New York World’s Fair, and the spread of Mormon buildings and missionary work into many parts of the world […]
[…] It might be best to illustrate my thesis by explaining the somewhat parallel circumstances I encountered during World War II at London headquarters of the Air Force Public Relations Office. On the ground floor […]
[…] respectable to be a Mormon, another skeleton is dragged out of our ecclesiastical closet for all the world to see. The world has begun to react with the equalitarian indignation appropriate to these times; […]
[…] This term, coined by Harvey Cox, expresses (in “secular”) a “this worldness”—meaning that the work of the world must be done by man himself, and (in “city”) all historical and Utopian dreams for the […]
[…] of God. No other work of literature has presented the Mormon story more forcefully to the non-Mormon world. Not surprisingly, however, Mormons have never made a cult of Vardis Fisher. Reared a Mormon, Fisher […]
[…] never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world. Emerson, “Of Friendship,” Essays. Over a year ago this column called attention to three new journals […]
[…] and continued as a sort of universal joint between the church, its members and an increasingly secularized world. The Christian Science Monitor, to be sure, endures, but it is more a newsmagazine than a […]