[…] 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.
[…] possesses two distinct advantages for the present study. n the first place, Piaget sees “structuring” as the human process of imposing greater degrees of order upon and deriving additional levels of meaning from preexisting […]
[…] event which was both necessary and desirable for the progress of Adam and Eve and the entire human family, while simultaneously viewing it as a transgression which merited punishment. The story contains a double […]
[…] and justly in those peculiarly nice points of distinction which are determined by the emotions agitating the human heart in its variety of phases, or under, perhaps, exceptional circumstances? I am sensitive to that […]
[…] of Nyssa suggested that “in the power of God’s fore knowledge .. . all the fullness of human nature had pre-existence (and to this the prophetic writing bears witness, which says that God ‘knoweth […]
[…] temporal existence of this earth was very short, only a few thousand years; that there was no human life on this earth prior to Adam; that the so called pre-Adamite finds of science were […]