[…] 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 […]
[…] eye was fixed on the ladder, anxious to get a first peep at that portion of the human family which is generally denominated the better half of man. Over they came, and as they […]
[…] The detail builds gradually through an intricate synthesizing of imagery, recollections, and sensuous awareness of nature and human relationships. Equally important is the point of view from which the story is told, because it […]
[…] her private life and despite the optimistic countenance she wore in public, she had few illusions about human nature. The foremost student of the Mountain Meadows massacre could scarcely have ignored the culpability, real […]
[…] trusted to learn and live according to them. I worry about the prevalence of the view of human nature that allows us to raise children by luring them, bribing them, manipulating them, threaten ing […]