[…] more robust intrafaith dialogue about race among members of the LDS church. Using principles from Martin Luther King, Jr. about dialogue on race, Whitaker argues for the need for greater dialogue to overcome the past.
[…] of this admission, he goes on to say that “to become Godlike man’s true nature.” Here I am fairly certain that an unmentioned assumption is made, namely “that to become Godlike is good,” and […]
[…] means in Vermont, the same thing it means wherever the past has been piously “restored,” roped off, and put on display—not the vitality but the decadence of a way of life. Such is the […]
[…] that death. It follows the pattern set by Papa Married a Mormon in uniting a series of stories; however, Mamma’s Boarding House is not as tightly controlled as the first book. These two works […]
[…] both the Prophet’s high aspirations, and the bickering, tawdriness, and hate that followed implementation of those aspirations. I am quite sure that many Mormons will read the recent works on Nauvoo with questions about their […]
[…] in grim detail, with the lack of jobs, the Hoovervilles across America, and the long breadlines. I am over thirty and I can recall with little effort the effects of the second World War—rationing […]
[…] Historical Review, 47 (Sept. 1960), 208. Orson F. Whitney, Popular History of Utah (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1916), p. 439. Joseph Smith, History of the Church (hereafter cited as DHC), Vol. Ill […]
[…] rate there while at the same time increasing it in the group that receives the spillover. I am of the opinion that temple marriage in and of itself provides strong motivation for successful marriage […]
[…] 1931. The address, entitled “The Earth and Man,” was considered important enough to print in the Deseret News on November 21, and then to reprint in pamphlet form. It concerned scientific theories on the […]
[…] our manufactures, it will be their business to gather in such things as may be needed. I am determined to cut every thread of this kind and live free and independent, untrammeled by any […]