[…] its two great leaders, and consequently to denigrate the other. Is it perhaps because they represent two human archetypes which necessarily stand in opposition to each other? Is one the dreamer, the visionary, the […]
“Our understanding of any significant movement in human affairs can hardly be said even to approach completeness until the evidence from literature is in.” —Seymour L. Gross “. . . Clio . . . has a […]
[…] decisions. As he later said, While still a young adult, I learned to recognize and appreciate the human fallibility in all our leaders, and thus to keep my expectations for their performance quite modest. […]
[…] impossible for our ancestors. Being cast out was literally deadly. To a social animal such as a human, there are few things worse than ostracism. Consider seeing through the eyes of an LGBTQ teen. […]
[…] Creator, a vastly more moving and profound experience, is well within the realm of possibility for any human who chooses to seek it. I am convinced that it is through faith, sometimes by the […]
[…] wife, upon the very spot where two years before I had lived for months without seeing a human being” (31). Pratt’s longing for religious certainty, his interest in preaching, and his desire to convert […]
[…] society has fallen into a sterile ethical relativity, which threatens the worth and dignity of the whole human venture. As a “defender of the faith,” Bishop Robinson refuses to confine himself to the shrinking […]
[…] a risk of not being believed at all. The circle within which they seek to restrict the human intellect ought therefore to be carefully traced, and, beyond its verge, the mind should be left […]
[…] Mario S. De Pillis is recalling our attention to the historical study of Mormonism’s origins, understood as human actions in time and space and interpreted as a constitutive part of the American pilgrimage. Such […]
[…] The Mormons created a unique society and economy in the hostile Great Basin environment at a considerable human cost in sacrifice and deprivation. Pride in the accomplishments of pioneer forebears, common in histories of […]