I Married a Family
April 30, 2018[…] boys were all gone—on missions, to school, married, in the military (we had four of them in World War II). Walter had finished college and was teaching. We traded the big house for a […]
[…] boys were all gone—on missions, to school, married, in the military (we had four of them in World War II). Walter had finished college and was teaching. We traded the big house for a […]
[…] about beginning a family, we settled several things between us. Our marriage had been the result of mutual attraction based on intellectual challenge, emotional elan, and an ever-increasing spiritual rapport. It was the latter […]
[…] be there, but I also had to back away, hoping they could cope with their com plicated world. After a hectic day, I felt pulled in all directions. Why weren’t my solutions as clear […]
[…] and a rich family life. I would have been pleased if Dr. Broderick had developed the this- worldly meaning of sex more fully and had left its other-worldly meaning to the world of possibility. […]
[…] it be violent denunciation of your ideas. It means a society eagerly interested in the interplay and mutual interaction of ideas. And what is more immediate to my theme, it means the assumption that an […]
One of mankind’s great social, political, and moral problems is war. The constant menace of war keeps the minds of thinking men disturbed and grieved. More than any other thing, war destroys wealth, art, […]
In a 1969 review-essay entitled “The New Mormon History,” Moses Rischin spoke of the sophistication with which scholars both within and without the Mormon culture were beginning to examine the Mormon past. He […]
[…] perfect their lives.” In twenty-three lucid chapters, he extolls the priceless gift of repentance for a troubled world, a gift of peace to the “anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.” The gift is not […]
As a lawyer, I have had a professional interest in the unfolding of Watergate. Lawyers have, of course, played a central role in the saga. A staggering number of the key players were lawyers—those […]
[…] is very reasonable, and a simple faith that somehow personality will be preserved in a vaguely-defined spirit world (where we have little objective evidence for its existence) is not sufficient for many trained, analytical […]