[…] 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 […]
[…] “secular” and so frankly acknowledges at the outset that “even though the Lord has worked through fallible human beings and institutions, I am convinced that his hand can be seen, not only in specific […]
[…] stable, slowly growing institution, with carefully established financial control, a clear tradition of the highest editorial and design quality, and a conservative process for choosing new editors and maintaining its traditional purposes and quality […]
[…] by Mary Bradford, Ed Lyon, John Sorenson, and Laurence Lyon. There was a beautiful cover and layout design by Paul Salisbury and the art work of Doug Snow. It was a great issue, and […]