[…] to religion. A variety of social, political, and economic as well as religious forces are active in breaking through the parochial character of Mormonism. During the years of President McKay’s administration the Church was […]
[…] the full influence of the Holy Ghost in my life, be spiritual, which had to be earned. Breaking off the last few pieces of the dead branch, I flipped them over the ledge. Then […]
[…] from Hugh J. Cannon’s journal, which Cannon kept while travelling with Apostle David O. McKay on his world tour of misisons in 1921. You share his tremulous wonder as he sees for the first […]
[…] a plan was approved or not. When divine confirmation came a public declaration was penned and the world heard, but for many months did not fully believe, that the Mormon Church had abandoned plural […]
[…] small “1”) is entertaining, but it is quite irrelevant in the ultimate sense. “Testimony” is simply another world of discourse. One can speak of historically orthodox beliefs and debate the relative popularity of different […]
[…] in his mortal condition and our concept of Adam as a great hero, who introduced us into a world of moral choice—according to God’s plan, not against it. The Book of Mormon states that Adam […]
[…] from the condition of contemporary man, i.e., from the perspective of a secularized society embodying a scientific world-view. The point that O’Dea makes is that secularized man evidences a sense of alienation and meaninglessness […]
[…] Goddess, whose little stone and clay figurines have been found in Upper Paleolithic sites over most of the world. She was the goddess of the fruitfulness of the earth and its creatures, the source of […]
[…] said, “We feel that we should not condescend to imitate the pride, folly, and fashions of the world.” “Real beauty,” they declared, “appears to greater advantage in a plain dress than when bedizened with […]
[…] securing a B. S. degree in chemistry from the University of Utah in 1917 and serving in World War I, Sperry became a seminary teacher. Feeling limited and dissatisfied with the elementary sources available […]