[…] meaning of suffering, probably as wise a lesson as can be drawn from the difficult puzzle of human experience. Having achieved a kind of mental and spiritual victory over physical circumstance, Jody concludes, “If […]
[…] government into executive, legislative, and judicial branches from the Old Testament. More curious are his uses of humanism, environmentalism, radical relativism, integration, equality, segregation, and radical libertarianism (pp. 204–9). From the con text I […]
[…] reasoned answers to probing queries about the gospel. It is equally significant that, whether by default or design, his successor was Joseph Fielding Smith who renamed the series “Answers to Gospel Questions” and proceeded […]
[…] only two bishops, Edward Partridge and Newel K. Whitney. They were “general bishops” whose jurisdiction was Church -wide, although they were also assigned regional responsibilities. Their place in church or stake organization was uncertain, […]
[…] Kushner contradicts him self. In one chapter he defends the idea of agency and its part in human experience: “The murder and the robbery . . . represent that aspect of reality which stands […]
[…] I began to hear, first faintly, then louder, P. A. Christensen’s resonant voice talking of “depth of human experience,” echoing Matthew Arnold’s concerns with “the best that has been thought and said in the […]
[…] as external pressures and internal tensions be came unbearable. The tragedy of the Morrisite saga is that humans apparently learn little from experience. Although the Mormon people were driven from state to state and […]
[…] These families aren’t famous, even in Church circles. But we could identify with these representatives of the human foundation upon which Mormonism was built. We could envision our ancestors rubbing shoulders with these convert–emigrants […]
[…] watch the world go by. One cannot be merely a bystander, doing nothing but criticize. When a human being finds himself at a dead end, he is tempted to turn to that last desperate […]
[…] merciful Christ she so passionately believed in but could not seem to reach. I don’t think a human being can live for very long without some kind of hope. Church membership for Carol was, […]