[…] that Utah had the highest per capita production of physicists of any state. Executive Positions in G overnment A second phase of Mormon achievement in the secular world appears to be in the production […]
[…] residents were “less fanatical” and “less ignorant” than the Mormons, DeVoto lodged the responsibility for the p overty of Utah’s culture on the narrow and unthinking character of its religious heritage. Indeed, in “A […]
[…] warnings. During such warnings, the communications media assume emergency broadcasting procedures; residents are advised to take c over. The natives react casually, for most warnings prove to be unnecessary, but to a newcomer it […]
For the better part of a month, I was with a group of young Mormons bent on giving the Church a vigorous expression in all the arts. We were not very clear as […]
[…] of test. Mormons who are genuinely concerned about (and perhaps even those engaged in) the current struggle over political ideologies which threatens to polarize and split the Church should give some serious attention to […]
[…] political parties. On social issues, they may differ enormously in their opinions on matters of race, p overty, crime, etc. Even on matters of doctrine, Church his tory, ecclesiastical practice, etc., they may differ […]
[…] and no yearly payments on the principal for five years. They calculated that if the Mormons took over their lands and remained on them five years, the Mormons would be compelled to erect dwellings […]
[…] Nauvoo City Charter, a typical charter intrinsically, was manipulated in practice to produce a quasi-independent municipal g overnment that seemed to rival the sovereignty of the state itself. It was said in the region […]
[…] and writes the Church’s history partly for its intrinsic interest but also as an act of self-disc overy. We are more distant from Joseph and the foundations of the Church, but the Kingdom is […]
[…] of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Lethbridge Stake Historical Committee. A History of the Mormon Church in Canada. Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada: Lethbridge Herald Company, 1968. $5.00. Order from Deseret-Book Craft, 907 3rd Ave. South, […]