[…] Treating racism as isolated acts of meanness mystifies its pervasiveness in US society and in the Western world as a whole. It’s not individual examples of bigotry, but rather a well-coordinated system founded on […]
World War I was the founding disaster of the twentieth century. It began for Britain on August 4, 1914. Nobody at the time realised how serious it was going to be. Ultimately, the […]
[…] an approach is folly. Both science and religion claim to be comprehensive and exclusive views of the world. Both make assertions about things that are generally claimed to be within the province of the […]
[…] a formidable broadcast institution. Through subsidiary corporations and institutions it owns sixteen radio and television stations, a sophisticated international broadcast distribution system, a Washington news bureau, a cable TV system and production and consulting divisions.
[…] ban in 1978. Note, however, that with time such changes tend to be explained as less ground- breaking than they were at the moment of their announcement; hence here, as in Catholicism, judicious rhetoric […]
[…] leaders simply admitted the essential accuracy of the charge. “I call upon the weak things of the world, those who are unlearned and despised, to thresh the nations by the power of my Spirit,” […]
[…] the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in its relation to that. I don’t think that this is a position that […]
[…] the gospel to a multitude of people. He believed that this vision would be realized in the world of spirits. He referred to this when he said that he should die before my return […]
[…] during the Civil Rights Movement when people both inside and outside the Church were harshly critcizing the priesthood ban. When the world was changing, it looked like the Church was still adherring to the past.
[…] of special interest and present unique problems to those concerned with the development of Mormonism as a world religion. Many of the problems which arise in Asia are also found in other missions, but […]