[…] change. Innovation could not be introduced easily. Besides institutional blocks to development of new methods, there was human fear of change or, more accurately, the fear of failure and inevitable hunger if the customary […]
Headlines in the newspapers seem to tell us that among the most distressed and confused members of our troubled society are the college students. Re search of my own, reported at a meeting of the…
[…] awaiting man’s pedestrian efforts to uncover it. Rather, the meaningful ordering of the world itself is a human enterprise, an undertaking which Man assumes as God’s partner.” “Secular” no longer has unpleasant connotations in […]
If you like fresh air, 25¢ hamburgers, and security, New York may not be the place for you. If you want a Rinso-clean wash you can hang in the backyard, where crickets sound at night, and neighbors who are people much like you, the city probably isn’t your bag.
A superlative is an automatic challenge, and when Mrs. Brodie calls City of the Saints “the best book on the Mormons published during the nineteenth century,” my impulse is to disprove it. At surface glance…
[…] The students were well distributed among the various fields of study, with 23 per cent claiming the humanities and fine arts, 24 percent the social sciences, 20 percent the physical and biological sciences, 13 […]
[…] saw a young man who after four years was hit with the irrelevance of his studies to human needs, the hypocritical tinsel of the homecoming. Disillusioned, confused, not a person but a commodity to […]
Are Mormons Christians? The official name of the Church includes the words “Jesus Christ” within it, and we consider Him our Savior. Our scriptures include the Bible, and, as Anthony Hoekema suggests, “Many people have the impression that the Mormon teachings are not basically different from those of historic Christianity.” Yet Dr. Hoekema has decided that “The Christ of Mormonism is not the Christ of Scripture.” The good doctor came to this conclusion by asking—and himself answering—the following ten questions: …
[…] plays seems to be entertainment, with far fewer plays achieving the goals of insight and understanding of humanity or intellectual stimulation. Aesthetic expression seems to be adequate but not brilliant, as do the dramatic […]
[…] fatal to society. And the other way round is also true. R. P. Blackmur, “The Politics of Human Power” I—A Digression For the better part of a month, I was with a group of […]