[…] address, Elder Glenn L. Pace asked the question, “Faced with ever louder cries for help from the world, how do we determine where to focus our efforts?” This essay asks a related question: How […]
[…] from Sunstone and the Mormon History Association expressing shock and sadness. Lavina Fielding Anderson wrote: “It’s heart- breaking for us personally. Paul and I were trying to think last night of a time when […]
[…] homework. That included academic preparation in Harvard University’s Department of Social Relations where, as a veteran of World War II, he wrote a brilliant undergraduate thesis on an ultraorthodox Catholic center in Cambridge. Graduating […]
[…] (Window Rock, Ariz.) Navajo Times. 27 July 1978. Goodfellow, William S. “He Brought Tabernacle Choir Sound to the World.” Deseret News. 22 February 1978. Lundgren, Hal. “Oiler QB Nielsen Devoted Mormon, Dedicated Player.” Houston Chronicle. […]
[…] rewards, meaning systems, relationships with deity and with departed loved ones, and so on. As in the commercial world, religious monopolies or other “restraints of trade” tend to depress entrepreneurship in the market. Thus in […]
[…] years missions branched into smaller cities, but the Russian village was an altogether new frontier. Bogdanovka, although it is only 100 miles or so from the large regional capital city of Samara, is a world apart.
[…] Mormon. “Does the author or translator of the book display any knowledge concerning that part of the world in which it claims to have its origin?” writes Nibley in a 1948 article in the […]
[…] also be seen in the accelerated pace with which Latter-day Saint temples are being built around the world. During five-year periods from 1987 to the present, the number of new temples dedicated has been […]
[…] The “Big C,” as my uncle called it, was growing inside me for no apparent reason. My world lost its predictability with two words: “It’s malignant.” Facing surgery and radiation treatments, I didn’t think […]
[…] of the relationship between the LDS and FLDS, which occurred forty-six times, was some reference to “ breaking away” (e.g., broke, break, breaking, breakaway, etc.), as illustrated in the following two quotations: … the […]