In a 1991 New York Times Book Review article, African -American literary theorist and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr., used the bizarre case of The Education of Little Tree to reexamine the issues […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] tell of raising his knife to murder his son before the face of God who has commanded human sacrifice. No, all of the struggle, the angst, the fear and trembling are swept away, banished […]
[…] greatest accomplishment of these two books is just that: they take readers inside the everyday, local, flawed, human exchanges of which institutions are made. If the diagnosis offered by Waterman and Kagel seems almost […]