[…] from the condition of contemporary man, i.e., from the perspective of a secularized society embodying a scientific world-view. The point that O’Dea makes is that secularized man evidences a sense of alienation and meaninglessness […]
[…] said, “We feel that we should not condescend to imitate the pride, folly, and fashions of the world.” “Real beauty,” they declared, “appears to greater advantage in a plain dress than when bedizened with […]
[…] years discussing what has become known as “the new morality.” Such articles have appeared in the daily newspapers, news magazines, women’s magazines, general interest pictorial magazines, as well as in dignified journals of thought. […]
[…] Goddess, whose little stone and clay figurines have been found in Upper Paleolithic sites over most of the world. She was the goddess of the fruitfulness of the earth and its creatures, the source of […]
[…] securing a B. S. degree in chemistry from the University of Utah in 1917 and serving in World War I, Sperry became a seminary teacher. Feeling limited and dissatisfied with the elementary sources available […]
[…] Sunday School classes are unaware of or summarily dis miss. I find no one in the “Mormon” world with whom I feel I can discuss real concerns or feelings. I feel that for most Mormons […]
[…] Bonnie L. Ballif. “Motivation Factor Scores and Response Set Scores for Ten Ethnic-Cultural Groups of Pre-School Children/’ American Educational Research Journal, 9 (Fall 1972), 557-572. Allen, James B. “Personal Faith and Public Policy: Some […]
[…] generation, the first generation formed by the twentieth century. Its members grew up when regional isolation was breaking down and rural Mormondom was experiencing widespread depopulation. Consequently it is not surprising that many of […]
[…] lose myself among the trapped and degenerate. How else am I to find what I in this world must find—myself? Every soul has its own South. Especially a Mormon’s. Keller suffers more beautifully on […]
[…] scriptures include those of Abraham from Ur to Canaan, the Jaredites from the tower to the New World and Lehi and his family from Jerusalem to the Americas. Perhaps the most relevant similar experience […]