[…] the Mountain West sought to make the desert blossom as the rose in a region hostile to human settlement; and a third stage of accommodation and adjustment to the dominant scientific and democratic culture […]
[…] “ignorant” and “illiterate” by the residents of Palmyra and the denunciation of Mormon beliefs as “subversive of human reason” by those dubious judges the “old settlers” of Jackson County, the stereo type was established […]
[…] had better go only as far as his knowledge of relevant materials warrants. In other fields of human endeavor it is taken for granted that comprehensive knowledge is needed. We rely on the lawyer […]
In the human presence is the real salience of life. I’m interested in that—the human resonance really that exists in all things and so in my work, though somewhat modified, somewhat less than obviously […]
[…] industrialization, urbanization, and “progress.” But the entire lifelong energies of the pioneer Saints were, of necessity or design, directly focused on their religious goals. There was little distinction between their temporal and spiritual activities; […]
[…] the glory of man, if not in his intelligence? Religion without thought is deprived of its distinctly human attribute. I like Jesus’ ad monition to love God with all our mind as well as […]
[…] But for God, who had called Abraham out of idolatry, out of the way of sacrifice of human beings in order to appease and please the gods, for God to turn now and ask […]
[…] Thence my predilection for Luke, for he is sensitively and sympathetically attuned to the dynamics of this human response. He sees and gives us to see that one of the peculiarities of faith is […]
[…] the ‘good old days’ either”—that these problems have been present whenever the Lord’s kingdom was organized among human beings. Your letter brings back voices from the past, memories of precious friends and of other […]
[…] at the University of Utah, de scribes the find as a “most remarkable specimen of a fossil human footprint.” He concludes that it raises “a serious contradiction of conventional geology.” In this same issue […]