[…] but which for me has always had the ring of truth. Two key statements epitomize this heretical, human-centered religion: first, that it is the glory of God and therefore his veritable raison d’etre “to bring […]
[…] to accomplish the purposes of its great Author in relation to the happiness and salvation of the human family.” Pratt wrote again two weeks later in the 26 September Wasp that he and Sarah […]
[…] another. But none of them has any meaning unless it is accompanied by justice and mercy in human relationships. You don’t truly know religion if you don’t know the writing prophets of the Old […]
[…] Is there, in fact, any such thing as truth? Are the “facts” of science simply constructs of human minds which could be supplanted by alternative organizing schemes? Could these organizing schemes be changed, since […]
[…] did traditional magic, Mormon cosmology also materialized the spiritual. This rendered the supernatural ultimately comprehensible by purposeful human inquiry. As Joseph Smith wrote, “There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is […]
[…] much of the latter nineteenth century, “I have been ambitious of but one thing, so far as human ambition is concerned, and that was to prove by the logic of conduct that my father […]
[…] reflections in their shiny surfaces. We can reach for understanding with an accuracy that recognizes courage and integrity, sees clearly human deception, cowardice, and rage, and accepts the vulnerability that makes all of us human.
[…] endowment (or anything else) came spontaneously out of heaven, through a cultural and social vacuum, and into human minds somehow totally devoid of or unaffected by pre-existing conceptions or proclivities. Mormonism, perhaps more than […]
[…] up in. And he does not merely imitate those lives but invests them believably with the great human themes of love and death and with passages of poetry and even occasional, quite “unrealistic” but […]
[…] my responsibility, as Church president, to say, “Now that we have built this temple, with its strange design of a spiral to the heavens, this is what it means to be a people who […]