[…] time of calm enjoyment, but of growth and adaptation. One matures as a person by responding differently today from the way in which one responded yesterday. We observe restraint so that restraints do not […]
[…] years, and had gone together to BYU for a semester. I’d always felt dumpy around her, so today would be no exception. I hate going out of the house feeling ugly. Big deal. How could […]
[…] general Wolf Graf von Baudissin (Count Baudissin) and political scientist Kurt Sontheimer, both very influential in Germany today. Catholic Christians have organized themselves within “Pax Christi,” the worldwide peace effort founded in France in […]
[…] movement, with some 30 percent of unionized workers at one point supporting socialist policies, and hundreds of newspapers and magazines. One socialist newspaper, the Appeal to Reason had a circulation of over three quarters […]
[…] challenge facing these writers is considerable. The majority of published works in the field of Mormon literature today consists of cliches borrowed from the larger world of bad literature. This cheap and easy fiction, […]
Samuel Johnson coined the phrase, and Virginia Woolf gave it its place in the language: the “common reader.” That per son, Doctor Johnson wrote, by whose common sense, “uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all […]
[…] that the voting process in the Church was originally much more open and thoughtful than it is today. I explained that I was really sustaining him more than most members of the stake because […]
[…] of the scriptures in the Church (1981, 132), and Sterling M. McMurrin has stated that “Mormons even today are in general the victims of traditional patterns of biblical thought that often tie them to […]
[…] of the book I found most interesting is that de scribing the nature of science. Most scientists today distinguish science from non-science according to the criterion of “falsi fiability” developed by Karl Popper. Briefly, […]
[…] (HC 2:180-200), and long before the Twelve assumed any significant administrative functions. It combined the functions of today’s Corporation of the President, the First Presidency, the Quorum of the Twelve, and the Presiding Bishopric […]