[…] communal worship plays a similar role. Group solidarity is encouraged through joint worship—singing of hymns, public prayer, mutual exhortation by members of the congregation, and particularly partaking of the sacrament. This latter act is […]
<i>Dialogue 18.2 (Summer 1985): 116–127</i><br>Women in the Mormon Church are encouraged toward traditional roles and attitudes that discourage personal, familial, and societal change. The ideal female role is that of a non-wage-earning wife and […]
Perhaps others than Helen John, Amy Avery, Golden and Thelma Buchanan, and Spencer W. Kimball might have compounded an equally powerful scheme for blessing the lives of Indians, but to these individuals fell that lot.
[…] Historians will naturally seek to answer those questions most important to them and those who share their world view. As Croce put it, “Every true history is contemporary history,” since it addresses those questions […]
In July 1984, I attended testimony meeting in my home ward in Salt Lake City. As the previous month’s crop of infants were blessed, I thought that after the sacrament I would go […]
[…] worn leather hassock by Grandpa’s wing chair. Into his nineties, Grandpa tuned in to every regularly scheduled news program during the day, ear cupped close to the speaker, the other hand on the dial […]
[…] same phenomena, but his different lens of understanding (literalistic Biblical) led him to experience a radically different world from Darwin’s. When Darwin began publishing his findings soon after his return to England, Fitzroy felt […]
[…] extent demonstrated in most, if not all, religions and denominations, despite apparent differences in belief. But through mutual investigation, dialogue, criticism, and appropriation, I suggest we can encourage ever more radical transformation toward a […]
[…] be held by forces now hostile to Americans. Commodore Stockton not only informed them of the threatening news, he encouraged them to go and hold Yerba Buena, an Anglo-American colony on the San Francisco […]
[…] which accounts for all of the phenomena and experiments that Einstein’s theory is supposed to encompass” (“Book News” 1979, 1). Ives’s credentials in this matter are substantial; he was an accomplished physicist, “responsible for […]