[…] chair ruled against objection, but the conference voted to table the entire matter. Looking toward the 1972 World Conference, the Portland, Oregon, Metropolitan branch passed a resolution on expanded female participation in church life. […]
[…] to all Latter-day Saint self-perceptions and to the images which they have attempted to present to the world. Of all these pasts, the most accessible to writers are those that are most recent. The […]
[…] Mr. Bushman. They have raised the larger question of the significance of the phenomenon of Mormonism in American history and life. It is a special pleasure to respond to commentators who understood and even […]
[…] frankness in dealing with sexual matters. Are we to exclude Catcher in the Rye or Brave New World or Go Tell It on the Mountain because of certain pas sages that might offend a puritanical […]
[…] . . of cabbages and kings Some Mormon Theologians hold that Joseph Smith had a plan for world government and that he believed that, as President of the Church and Prophet, he was the […]
[…] another prophet these wise old men Standing in silent oaks Long-falling through Time Gray pillars of light breaking on rock-strewn shores casting milksilver to the ocean’s spray Faces aged in brown charcoal White pearl […]
[…] God is not before all creation but is with all reality. All occasions emerging in the physical world are absorbed into God and add to his reality. Human beings’ actions have meaning for and […]
[…] Nigeria and Ghana served as havens of refuge. Dr. Bruce Knudsen, with his family, was employed by World Health Organization in a mosquito-abatement research project with headquarters in Enugu, Nigeria. The Knudsen family had […]
[…] career. That I did not care to improve my craft before trying to announce myself to the world was the first of my failures and an example of my prideful tendencies, an obvious parallel […]
[…] diamond ring after homemade lasagna and before Breyers ice cream at Kiwanis Park. *** In an ideal world, I’d be able to sit down at lunch with a group of friends and we’d all […]