Excessive multiplication of bureaus results in a bureaucracy, which we may define as any administration in which the need to follow complex procedures impedes effective action. A bureaucrat usually works by fixed routine without exercising…
[…] two presidents and a handful of findable members. Seventies from different quorums who lived in the same community sometimes grouped themselves into an unofficial, local, “mass” quorum. By late 1880 it had become “impossible […]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is to be congratulated for its latest edition of the Doctrine and Covenants. My personal copy of this volume—happily, a gift from Dr. Robert J. Matthews of…
[…] I gave the opening prayer in which I said: “We have met here today clothed in the black robes of a false priesthood … ” Many have asked me since whether I really said […]
[…] of space in national and local newspaper. News items range from the local LDS missionaries in the community to the major eight-part series on the Mormon Church in the Denver Post. The greatest percentage […]
[…] LDS stand excluding blacks from the priesthood, and Lee is enraged when Paul reveals his own one-eighth black ancestry. In his fury, Lee angles toward earth, with Brother Paul following. Their speed increases until […]
[…] monitoring devices. They are also generally not aware that the Soviets during the Carter Administration agreed to black-box monitors on Soviet soil as well as on-site inspectors at weapon testing sites. And they are […]
[…] nothing. There was no moon. The temple lights suddenly flickered and died. The temple receded, gray into black, a two-dimensional facade. Without those streams of light tying the steeple to the building and the […]
[…] accept, as part of their faith in a divinely directed Church, the revealed policy that those of black African descent are not now to receive the priesthood. I accept that, essentially at face value. […]
[…] 76-7-301 et seq. 1973.) In actual practice, abortion seems to have been very uncommon in the Mormon community. After the period of intense national agitation ended, the subject largely disappeared from Church commentary for […]