[…] led ultimately to moral principles that helped lay the foundation for modern medicine. The gospel view of human beings as allies of God, in the quest for solutions to life’s problems has been particularly […]
<i>Dialogue 16.3 (Fall 1984): 69 -76</i><br>Emma spent her remaining years far removed from the associates who had helped shape the events of that first decade of the Nauvoo period. Like those around her, she […]
[…] 37–75</i><br> As one step in that direction, this article explores Book of Mormon usage in the pre -Utah period (1830—46), and seeks answers to the following questions: Which passages from the Book of Mormon […]
[…] power. Why, his parents thought his name was Simon.” Kevin shook his head in good–natured recognition of human folly. “The Lord himself gave Peter his proper name when he called him to the work. […]
[…] irony that any Mormon would experience a sense of blocked opportunity, for, theologically, with the doctrine that human beings are potential gods and goddesses, we are the church of maximum opportunity. This doctrine of […]
[…] a mangled cat’s head on his doorstep; another time, a wad of tin foil with strands of human hair wound around a piece of bone. Still, he played hardball, cried repentance from the pulpit, […]
[…] Stephen Jay Gould has written, It is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists—whether through design or stupidity, I do not know—as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional […]
[…] 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 […]