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April 14, 2018[…] I didn’t marry a soldier under siege, or a man whose only way of dealing with the world is to turn it into stories.” “Hmm,” he said, taking a notecard from his pocket, Try […]
[…] I didn’t marry a soldier under siege, or a man whose only way of dealing with the world is to turn it into stories.” “Hmm,” he said, taking a notecard from his pocket, Try […]
[…] was especially interested in Jungian psychology. Her study of eastern mysticism led her to think of the world in terms of balance and harmony. To her an excess of patriarchy in the Church upset […]
<i>Dialogue 24.4 (Winter 1991): 44–58</i><br> Driggs shares the story of how in between the First and Second Manifestos, polygamy was still happening in secret.
[…] chance that he would get better. He felt worthless, unworthy, and vile and was certain that the world would be better off without him. Occasionally the depression would lift, only to return later. At […]
[…] and do, laud imperialistic, authoritarian slave societies. The scholarship of antiquity is often removed from the real world, hygienically free of value judgments. Of the value judgments, that is, of the voiceless masses, the […]
[…] December 1917: “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the most democratic institution in the world” (100). Although some subsequently have taken the position that he did not mean what he said […]
[…] such peremptory fashion that I fumed all day. By that evening at the annual faculty dance the news was all over campus that I had been turned down but was not going to accept […]
[…] manifestations. Deep in the Mormon psyche is an attraction to prophetic posturing and swagger. In particular, Joseph Smith, Jr., and Brigham Young are icons who have come to dominate the Mormon world like mythical colossuses.
[…] being and an effective, charismatic leader. As quoted in Terry W. Call, “David O. McKay,” in Church News, Deseret News, 25 Sept. 1993. For a good descriptive overview of McKay’s varied accomplishments throughout the […]
[…] of that deliberation does not matter. More generally, we place great value on interpersonal relationships characterized by mutual attributions of responsibility. We value social interaction incorporating such mutual attributions; we seek to interact with […]