[…] is always dynamic, emotional, urgent and inseparable from the historical setting which provoked it. Emissary prophets were human. They never said “follow me,” or “do as I do.” It was always “hearken unto the […]
[…] most television situation comedies. His humor is gentle and grows out of sympathetic and penetrating observation of human experience, specifically that of rural Mormondom. The strain of satire is strong, but devoid of sting or […]
[…] the tiny, contorted mummies in the museum on Temple Square but had never thought of them as human. Now I saw, in imagination, a body twisted, compressed, shoveled into a shallow pit and covered […]
[…] with each of us, and that our salvation depends on our personal relationship with deity, not on human intermediaries. Much of the strength and beauty of LDS theology arises from the creative tension provided […]
[…] health is now widely acknowledged. Mor mons have shown that they experience what medical science would predict from their lifestyle: a longevity several years greater than non -Mormons, with much less cancer and heart disease.
[…] we know how men, or some men, thought and felt. Our understanding of the workings of the human heart, which is what we seek from our writers, came almost entirely from the male side […]
[…] large, inflated weather balloon suspended above the dance space. The balloon has the color and texture of human skin, like a breast or a womb, and is very sensual. It also gives the impression […]
[…] divine thought that God’s power can be made manifest upon the dumb brute as well as upon human beings, a new revelation in faith.”) Corbett, Don C.,Mary Fielding Smith: Daughter of Britain (Salt Lake […]
[…] that plants and animals “lived and died, age after age, while the earth was yet unfit for human habitation.” Perhaps because of the injunction against further discussion of the issue of pre–Adamites, he did […]
[…] under stood by a quick trip through the editorial correspondence files, a sort of diary (or dia -log) of my term as editor. In that fragmentary record I grope for a synthesis that eludes […]