Dialogue 11.1 (Spring 1978): 58–76
During the spring of 1977, Utah’s two major newspapers began their coverage of what was to become one of the hottest political controversies of the year: the Utah Women’s Conference authorized by the National Commission on the Observance of International Women’s Year and scheduled for June 24-25
[…] that is likely to outlast my grandchildren; yet from it has come whatever sense I have of human continuity.” He compares the town to the Lombardy poplar tree which is “not a long-lived tree; […]
[…] at the handcart stage of the Mormons crossing the desert of the Middle West in 1846. The human being is still pre- eminently the beast of burden in China as was the case with […]
[…] reader can judge certain points. In her discussion of the Independence temple, she provides only the facade design without additional plans and elevations. She should have provided these if they are not available from […]
[…] called to this fact in various General Conferences and in works such as Frederick J. Pack’s Tobacco and Human Efficiency (published by the Church in 1918). By and large, how ever, the unreliability of the […]
[…] with the Mormon version of perfectionism. It was also at BYU that I was introduced to the human potential movement through an encounter group. In graduate school, my humanistic orientation became more sophisticated and […]
[…] whether such a practice should be given constitutional protection under the First Amendment. Suppose, one believed that human sacrifices were a necessary part of religious worship, would it be seriously contended that the civil […]
[…] removed from men, there would be no more war. But these are some of the basic immutable human passions to be softened at least possibly eliminated only by civilizing centuries. Clark did not have […]
[…] me know at the first sign that they might change their minds and hire an architect to design each new chapel. In haste, The Chief Dear Boss, I’m sorry to complain again, but it’s […]
Among the things Mormon brought into the spotlight by the Sonia Johnson affair, perhaps the least well understood was the LDS notion of “excommunication.” To non-Mormons the process seemed, in Phil Donahue’s widely heard characterization, a “medieval”, anachronism. On the Mormon side, while the notion was hardly a surprise, a remarkable ignorance of the criteria and mechanics was generally evident whenever the faithful tried to “explain” what was going on.