Mormon World View and American Culture
April 27, 2018[…] not intend to have any trade or commerce with the Gentile world. For as long as we buy from them we are in a degree dependent on them. The Kingdom of God cannot rise […]
[…] not intend to have any trade or commerce with the Gentile world. For as long as we buy from them we are in a degree dependent on them. The Kingdom of God cannot rise […]
[…] or partisan politics. The gospel allows for neither of these responses, for the Christian’s duty is to counter corruption in all its forms and to avoid neutrality on any moral issue. As Thoreau said, […]
[…] in a ward complaining they had no time to work on the chapel and no money to buy lumber, Kimball admonished, “Now you can’t build a church on bullshit. .. . If we get […]
<i>Dialogue 8. 3/4 (1973): 43–73</i><br> Ever since his great synthesis, Darwin’s name has been a source of discomfort to the religious world. Too sweeping to be fully fathomed, too revolutionary to be easily accepted, […]
[…] ideology of the doctrine of the Kingdom, which was in the first generation both literal and political. 3. The New History as an ecumenical history: Joseph Smith intended that the moral and spiritual chaos […]
[…] Arbuthnot places upon books, the Mormon community is indeed rich. The editor of this column never ceases to be amazed by the quantity (and increasingly the quality) of books and periodicals directed at the […]
[…] Indian nations, they might teach the braves to cultivate the land and become a civilized people” (p. 6); but it seems that the Indians did not perceive the whites as coming to live “among” […]
[…] know that those things don’t count. I’m going to go back to the farm, find a wife, buy a cow, settle down to raise a family, and serve the Lord.” The President lectured that […]
[…] in Brigham Henry Roberts, A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( 6 vol., Salt Lake: Deseret News Press, 1930), IV:33i, n. 9. Salt Lake Herald, October 9,1892. Journal […]
[…] Dialogue. This is a selected listing excluding some of the publications well advertised in Church publications or available through ward “bookstores.” The selection is made solely upon the editor’s discretion and subject to his foibles.