[…] by Joe Munroe, with several fine photographs. The continuing dominance of the landscape in the face of human incursion is suggested in several of the frames. Taken as a group, however, the photographs seem […]
[…] rich symbolism and indispensable reality of the ordinances and the significance of the temple in binding the human family together. The point here is that Joseph Smith gave us the whole thing, and it […]
[…] the eighteenth century was to rid the world of superstition. It questioned all assumptions, all propositions about human life that were not verified by the senses—the common senses that we all share. It was […]
[…] inviting the membership to attach flesh to the bones of its convictions in a world of critical human need. The Conferences of 1976 and 1978 reveal still further attempts at refinement with respect to […]
[…] of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction and Bioethics, Georgetown University, has responded to this whole notion about as well as anyone. […]
[…] down their cheek.” This, he concluded, would secure to a parent “one of the greatest sources of human happiness, to have his family without reproach, without shame, without contempt, and his house a house […]
[…] we see evidence that God’s love and power have frequently broken in upon the ordinary course of human affairs in a direct and self-evident way, our caution in declaring this is reinforced by our […]
[…] for any reasonable person, who of necessity must know the horror of the times, the purposelessness of human affairs, the ultimacy of the void. Underlying existence, as the existential philosopher Sartre had emphasized, was […]
Religion is, undeniably, an ever-present part of human life. And the several eastern and western religions are like colors of the same rainbow of spiritual and moral truths. The literatures of belief and faith […]
[…] mental factors undermine the arts, particularly literature, in Mormondom. The first is scriptural completeness which renders any human-made text ultimately superfluous. She writes that “the sacred texts of Mormonism — the standard works — […]