[…] America from its European heritage to the present is Sydney E. Ahlstrom’s A Religious History of the American People (1972). Like Olmstead’s work, approximately one-third of Ahlstrom’s study discusses the European background and the […]
[…] “anyone who chooses to ignore the subject surely jeopardizes the development of an accurate view of the world around him.” We would not advocate that one ignore evolution, but Jeffrey does seem to exhibit […]
[…] time,” he wrote, “Latter-day Saints can point to a volume of verse and say to the literary world, ‘We too have a poet, an artist of skill, knowledge, power, and depth.’”Karl Keller, reviewing the […]
[…] good person engages our admiration, but rarely our understanding. An aura of mystery colors the typical Mormon world. A boy raised on the streets learns early the harsh realities of life. He has no […]
[…] that I would be true to it all the rest of my life, and I’d fight the world against it if that’s what he wanted . . . The “revelation and assurance came to […]
[…] mean. Oh, Lord, continue to help us! Please. So often I feel like I’m getting to the breaking point, and the other night the doctor had to take Lyn’s mother back to the dorm. […]
[…] our personal restoration, we come to this place made sacred in our ordinances. Young Joseph sought this world in his confusion. He came to ask what he could do; he came to talk in […]
[…] John Taylor noted that “For a man of God to bid adieu to the things of this world is a matter of comparatively small importance.” Of course he said this at a funeral. The […]
[…] you will be successful in your work. We need more Mormon boys to go out into the world of business and scientific research to represent our ideal of living.” Harvey Fletcher spent the next […]
[…] the Church cannot easily write off proselyting in Indonesia. It is the fifth largest nation of the world after China, India, Russia, and the United States of America. It has bounteous natural resources, including […]