[…] 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 — […]
[…] to faith. Of course we early discovered, if we had not already known, that our ancestors were human; but within that framework there was ample evidence of faith and devotion. One of my projects, […]
[…] earth is but a great record, each continent but a page, each community but a paragraph, and each human being’s body but a sentence.” Maeser and the members of the academy board were so pleased […]
Dialogue 17.3 (Fall 1984): 23–34
Brazil, with a high concentration of African heritage, was a difficult place for the Church (because of the Church’s racial policy) to make headway among native members. Due to the high risk of Brazilians potentially having African ancestry, the Church came to the point where they eventually discouraged missionaries in Brazil from baptizing anyone who is known to have African ancestry.
[…] to understand what I am coming to believe can only be understood not solved. But my own human hopefulness cries out for more. The Church is a bright spot in the North. It seems […]
[…] of whole societies, even of immense empires. But how can we possibly comprehend the death of the human species, much less the entire planetary biosphere? So our minds go blank. They simply shut down […]