[…] 40 per cent, with approximately 20 per cent of the total living outside the United States or Canada. But statistics do not tell the whole story. During the nineteenth century converts throughout the world […]
[…] God and man’s place in the universe. This is illustrated in the Scriptures of the world religions over and over again. In the Tao Teh King, the classic scripture of Taoism, for example, the […]
[…] persuasion, and even occasional support. Some of the letters have raised questions which might have some interest for many readers beyond the original writer. This sort of interaction or stimulus-response is often quite personal […]
[…] remained serene about the ultimate verdict in the hereafter. “Things will be straightened out,” he said, “ over there.” Members of the family, however, were concerned about his status in limbo. Ten years after […]
[…] University of Chicago and work toward the Ph.D. degree in Biblical Studies. I had been teaching seminary for four years, but now, impressed with the need for greater understanding of the background of the […]
When the iron works was shutting down and you couldn’t buy a sack of flour in Cedar Valley at any price (grasshoppers we had—but no gulls), the Lord sent mushrooms.
[…] and-sun-drenched baseball diamond has shrunk to softball under lights, and the county has built a tennis court just off third base for a game the kids are beginning to learn to play in white shoes.
[…] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” Brigham Young University, 1971. Schrader, David Frederick. “Satisfaction with Parenthood over Eight Stages of the Life Cycle for Latter-day Saint Couples: An Exploratory Study.” Brigham Young University, […]
[…] now. The Marxist theory of literature and history should have clued us that, what with the “ counter-culture” having predictably tired of the Eastern philosophies and turned to Christianity, something of a synthesis was […]
[…] street (every village used to have its scriptorians and theologians in those days before theology was taken over by the seminary system); old Sister Allen, who used to go around buying the carcasses of […]