[…] not seem to be fully understood, we thought a little explanation on this point might not be amiss.”If what followed failed in its stated purpose of providing a complete understanding of the office, it […]
[…] 153-55. Aldrich, “Organizational Boundaries,” p. 289. Membership figures are from 1983 Church Almanac (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1982), pp. 214-16. “Wilford Woodruff and the Changing Nature of Mormon Religious Experience,” Church History 45 […]
[…] a priest. Only six years earlier, the United States had been engaged in a “splendid little war” on the largest Carribean isl and — at the enthusiastic urging of William Randolph Hearst and Teddy Roosevelt.
[…] of Mormon times “some thousand moons ago.” He readily acknowledges his progenitors’ uncivilized state: And long they’ve lived by hunting instead of works and arts, And so our race has dwindled to idle Indian […]
[…] father said a hundred times if not more. “That’s why we named you after her.” Aunt Betsy lived in a little white frame house by the orchard. She loved flowers and grew tall crimson […]
It was one of those crisp November days in Hershey, Pennsylvania, when I heard the news. Snuggled under a quilt, I was reading to my two young sons when the telephone interrupted us. It […]
[…] would need. We selected a nursing home and made an exploratory visit. It was a totally unf amiliar environment. “Residents” slumped in wheelchairs or shuffled haltingly in walkers. Each corridor was lined with hip-high […]
[…] Jews, the Bible, the Torah and all literature that descends from them are human; they are a live; they are beings. They, and the Bible particularly, must be dealt with on their own terms […]
[…] various groups, asking provocative questions in innocent ways to see what people say. I hear gossip and news of people I know. Women’s conferences focus a stake’s activities for months. They involve hundreds of […]
As I look back on more than sixty years in the Church, two changes st and out as being most significant: I have seen my church permit all worthy male members to hold the […]