[…] scholarship. In 1938, Clark instructed Church educators that “You are not to teach the philosophes of the world. . . .Your sole field is the gospel.” Ecclesiastical leaders who supported Clark’s positions became known as “Clark men,” […]
[…] than a dozen books on Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) history and the American West. His best known work is his book Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the […]
[…] leave them alone!” I took a few ragged breaths. With tears clouding my eyes and my voice breaking, I said, in not quite a whisper to no one in particular but to every Mormon […]
[…] bunny hole of Alice’s Wonderland, we should be investing our time in organizations geared to the real world and to the solution of our moral problems. This conclusion requires that I withhold my substantive […]
[…] a scene then while somersaulting off a roof (8). Eve laments the “delicious bite” that invoked the world in which she finds Abel dead (11). The poet imagines pausing the world, halting people in […]
[…] status of Blacks was determined to be based on their behavior during premortal life in the spirit world. Just as there were noble and great spirits in the premortal existence, there were less valiant, […]
[…] the spirit may not be quite so axiomatic, though I think it should be. But in a world of art still in the process of emerging from the depths of naturalistic pessimism, and emerging, […]
[…] confidently employing their science to verify the far reaches of Joseph’s revelations in the eyes of the world’s science. Now I don’t know anything about Egyptology; but, when I think of how much preparation […]
The world of Mormon-directed periodicals continues to thrive as new journals appear and old (those that began within the last few years) journals struggle for continued existence
[…] put him in the class with the man who said, “There isn’t an honest man in the world.” Unthinkingly, he makes an admission that he, himself, is dishonest. The transfer never took place. Although […]