[…] 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 […]
[…] only what they are, but also their whole sense of being. Christ distinguishes words and interpretations of human beings, even priests, even authorities, from the ways of God — not for his own status […]
[…] in his role as prophet and by being even somewhat reluctant to let him err in his human capacity (if we can separate the two), the faithful historian perpetuates the tendency in Mormonism to […]
From its inception, Mormonism has been characterized by a blend of traditional American culture mixed with unique, sometimes even radical, elements. The nineteenth-century Mormon family combined aspects of Puritan family morality with a unique theology…
[…] way he used language. Having come forth from the womb with a love of words, believing that human language dignifies and magnifies us, puts a shape on things, I have ears receptive to a […]
[…] a desperate resignation before the prospect of a sermon. Mormon preaching strikes me as deficient in content, design, and delivery. To a considerable degree Mormonism remains a folk religion. Its most current ideas—even those […]