Letters to the Editor
May 28, 2024[…] But the doctrine of gathering has been suspended and our job now is to live in the world. While we may know well enough who we are in testimony meetings and Ward Council and […]
[…] But the doctrine of gathering has been suspended and our job now is to live in the world. While we may know well enough who we are in testimony meetings and Ward Council and […]
[…] be the subject of the musical, which is fraught with interest for Latter-day Saints. Evoking the in-the- world-yet-not-of-the world tensions, The Order is Love becomes an examination of how the idealistic Saint in each […]
[…] would be somewhat surprising if our political and social ideas were anything but part of the general American consensus. I shall be contending here that while such ideas run quite a gamut among modern […]
[…] trappers who passed through in 1830 described it as “the most desolate and forlorn dell in the world” and preferred to “forego the acquisition of any benefit in the world” rather than remain there. However, […]
[…] Young’s Outer Cordon,” Utah Historical Quarterly, won awards as the best articles. According to the June MHA Newsletter, “Special citations were awarded to Bill Russell, editor of Courage, to Andrew Karl Larson, for long […]
[…] nearly all anthologists, of course. Second, some suggestions on content. The editors note that we are “a world church” (p. 5), yet their selections implicitly define Mormon literature as a sub species of American […]
[…] man’s unconscious, dissected the strange beliefs of tribal societies and examined the religious survivors of a secularized world in search of naturalistic explanations of religious phenomena with the result that the validity of religious […]
[…] these themes. The book also offers well-informed assessments of the practical difficulties facing the Church in its world-wide mission. Essays by David M. Kennedy and Soren F. Cox detail this challenge from their respective […]
[…] extensively injurious. Such delusions many have hoped and believed, belonged only to the dark ages of the world, or spread only among the illiterate and ignorant. But such is not exactly correct, for many […]
[…] Utah and the western United States as core focus, with the periphery consisting of the rest of the world. The exception would be well-organized and smoothly functioning church units in certain urban areas elsewhere in […]