Mythology and Nuclear Strategy
April 18, 2018[…] arms race as part of a search for viable public myths, we are on the way to breaking out of the trap of pseudomyths held as literal facts. We take a step back from […]
[…] arms race as part of a search for viable public myths, we are on the way to breaking out of the trap of pseudomyths held as literal facts. We take a step back from […]
[…] expected on the basis of Galatians. “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and prayers . . . Day by day, attending the temple together and breaking […]
[…] I’d created a sculpture of myself outside myself, a clone who was my personal representative to the world. She had groomed hair, was nice, kind, responsible, well-loved, obedient, and she tended home fires. The […]
[…] (Markow n.d., 60). Markow waited in a dimly lit cell while the authorities tried to decipher the English on his passport and missionary certificate. A local merchant who could speak English provided the translation. […]
[…] voters in the South through the so-called “force bill,” and prospects were not at all good for breaking the Democratic grasp on the vote from that section. The West certainly appeared to hold more […]
<i>Dialogue 24.3 (Fall 1991): 43–57</i><br> Before the Manifesto was first read in conference, members and church leaders fully believed in plural marriage as being a commandment from God. Once the Manifesto was read, over […]
[…] came to the United States in the late 1960s. Already baptized, Rosalinda and her family attended an English-speaking ward, but because Rosalinda spoke only Spanish, her only church job was tending children in the […]
[…] to grow. Eliza R. Snow Smith, Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Co., 1884). A comprehensive history of the Italian mission has not been written. For a short […]
[…] from Greek mythology tells of the titan Prometheus who, alone among the gods, loved mortals enough to share with them the secret miracle of fire, “th choice flower … the bright glory of fire […]
[…] or the church authority who gave a moving but destructive sermon as a model. “Why didn’t some English teacher or critic or seminary instructor warn me to consider such ethical matters critically, raising important […]