[…] no political black lists to challenge, and virtually no censors peeking over their shoulders. They had to design their own responses to a predicament that currently haunts so many Eastern European writers: “How to […]
[…] whisperings of the Spirit, the necessity of suffering, and a conception of the inner Word in the human soul which precipitated “tried faith.” Scripture was a dead letter and salvation null or void without […]
[…] my head, I would try dousing it with fire, that hard-cover cross (no heavier than a human heart). The ink and paper would save me, not because words can save any […]
[…] of Proverbs 31, which details quite intricately the prudence and generosity of an earthly female householder. This human ex ample is said to “open her mouth with wisdom” (v. 26) and to “fear Yahweh” […]
[…] a dall sheep at a high elevation, you are instantaneously placed in an elite category of “ human hood.” A number of my church friends believe in this nonsense. The Word of Wisdom on […]
[…] Alienation.” And under “Morality and Enterprise,” we get treated to the platitude “In the end it is human motivation that makes an economy operate,” and to the following unexplained astonishing assertion: “It can be […]
[…] someone who has fought for years, on his own time, for the protection of civil liberties and human rights is unfit to run for office as a Democrat because he is ‘too liberal’? And […]
[…] us to bring our “faith into dialogue with the larger stream of world religious thought and with human experience as a whole … ” To me, this means it is as legitimate and valuable […]
[…] will concede a certain idealism at work in that definition, yet it does not describe a natural human behavior. As Americans and Mormons, we believe in freedom of speech, but also and no less […]
[…] 29. Eloise Bell, Only When I Laugh (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1990), 28-29 Truman Madsen, “ Human Anguish and Divine Love, ” in A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints, Richard Cracroft […]