[…] office, on heavy manual Underwood and Royal typewriters, Meg and Rich and I pound out editorials and campus news. Meg and I both send per sonal news to Russell, she in nicely rounded, erect letters […]
[…] dangerous. Where did safety lie in such a world? With my ghosts, I traveled back to the USA and Stanford and tried to make some sense of it all. For the next two years, […]
Historical Christianity is a remarkable composite of diverse religious cultures, a mixture that even today, after two millennia, is still mixing, blending things that often will not blend and fusing the unfusible. Sometimes severe, […]
[…] sons of Israel.” Not so familiar is the doctrine of literal biological descent of Mormons of European stock. I have experienced vehement objections and incredulity when I mentioned the doctrine to younger Mormons, who […]
[…] policy ideal), rather than focusing on those remaining dependent on government assistance. The comprehensive welfare program of today does not even try to compete with government programs. Yet its multi-faceted approach to acute need, […]
There are significant differences between historical investigation of controversial issues and the polemical use of history. Jeff D. Blake’s essay is a textbook example of polemics impersonating as history. First, he employs the classic […]
[…] a few years ago, faster almost than we can respond. It has also made us the target of anti- American sentiment and violence. Yet, in spite of all, church membership has now reached nine million.
[…] maybe, especially when she was surrounded by the kind of high-powered executives she dealt with. But this news was a shock. After a small silence, Catherine said, “I’ve already got a church. I thought […]
[…] Ralph V. Chamberlin’s 1925 biography, The Life and Philosophy of W. H. Chamberlin (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press). E. E. Ericksen, one of Chamberlin’s students who became head of the philosophy department of […]
[…] The father would live! The second was an ironic poem by L. A. Cowles clipped from the news paper: CALL THE BISHOP If your baby’s got the colic, Call the bishop; If your son’s […]