[…] order as Navaho or Zuni Indians. At the same time Mormon views of their own life c over a similar spectrum, from super-patriotism to a substantial sense of autonomy from Ameri can life. These days, […]
[…] in a ward complaining they had no time to work on the chapel and no money to buy lumber, Kimball admonished, “Now you can’t build a church on bullshit. .. . If we get […]
[…] Yet he was guilty of a common fallacy—reading the priesthood as a sexual metaphor. Women who agonize over their status in the eternities suffer from the same error. Perhaps a male monopoly of ecclesiastical […]
My grandfather, for whom I was named, was born in 1878 in a four-room stone house built by his father in Round Valley, near Morgan, Utah. My great grandfather had a small farm there […]
[…] in the German tale. He pointed up to mountains and plateaus where what appeared to be g overnment-type buildings were going up and said, “The church owns this.” We went into a cafe to […]
[…] never used in pre-Columbian America because of lack of roads. He points out that roads existed all over the civilized part of the Western Hemisphere at this time. Here he misinterprets the professional archaeological […]
[…] reaching changes in the church educational system. Under his direction those with special competence in areas c overed in the institute curriculum wrote texts published by the Church Department of Education. Sometimes these works […]
[…] was opposed to, his actual behavior as well as his words, and the changes in his attitude over time, quite a different picture appears. He then emerges as a man of common sense, flexible […]
[…] of the articles have been written makes their reading worth-while. These writings represent an important and frequently overlooked aspect of the popular perception of Mor mons. Not included (with one lone exception), are the […]
[…] is experiencing the highest rate of membership growth in the Church. In 1975 Mexico alone accounted for over twenty-two percent of the baptisms in the Church. That was with 21 thousand converts. In 1976 […]