Our society is afflicted with a tumorous disrespect for law. Ordinary citizens and public figures reject the requirements of law and boldly substitute some other set of values to justify clearly illegal behavior. Widely publicized…
[…] Hatch expresses a firm conviction that such a book is needed because “there are some practices of human origin which ap pear to be theologically sound and which may be considered as obstacles to […]
[…] people know that our wish and our mission are for the blessings and salvation of the entire human race. May the Twentieth Century prove the happiest as it will be the grandest of all […]
[…] and dissection of the more sophisticated American Puritans, can fail to respect them and to see a human plausibility in their thinking. The main peril of Miller’s approach is that he may sometimes take […]
[…] faith and championing spiritual values—and with exposing and opposing selfishness, materialism, shallowness, and all things harmful to human personality or destructive in human relationships.” Such questions of character and morality are about all that […]
[…] is not a prominent character and lust one of the ingredients of the plot. . . . Human nature loves to coast along the borders of infamy and crime. Open vulgarity and obscenity are […]
[…] profundity of its ideas, for the grace and power of its language, for its insights into the human condition. Its merits otherwise, whether as history or as fiction designed to be read as history, […]
[…] an unawareness of being hampered in any way.” Djilas stated that it is “the concrete form of human and social existence.” Its pur pose, as he defined it, seemed to reflect an awareness of […]
Dialogue 4.4 (Winter 1969): 86–103
Lester E Bush wrote in response to Stephen G Taggart’s book which the author tried to show that the Church came from abololonist ideas because the Church was orginially founded in New York, but when they encountered pro slavery settlers in Missouri and faced the hostiltiy from the settlers early church leaders apparently changed their mind, even though Joseph Smith eventually did a turnabout from what records have shown regarding African Americans.
“Sources of Mormon History in Illinois, 1839-48” at Southern Illinois University, is a collection of documents (most of which are on microfilm), which was assembled by Stanley B. Kimball, who also published an annotated catalog…