[…] on camaraderie with others who care about the art. I know from experience that the workaday business world can suck the poetic spirit dry. I’ve been working in high-tech marketing and public relations for […]
[…] perspectives. For the Bible, problems in ethics (e.g., the advocacy of slavery; capital punishment for adultery, Sabbath breaking, or child rebellion; Jacob’s use of deceit to obtain a blessing; etc.) do not impair judgments […]
[…] endure. It is also expressed in Ty Mansfield’s quotation from Elder Neal A. Maxwell that “Saints reach breaking points without breaking” (129). When I met Stuart Matis some months before his death I was […]
[…] what we consider to be ultimate in the cosmos, speaking in judgment on the ways of the world, commanding duties, and offering redemption. Where do people look for the word of God? Usually in […]
[…] general stripped of his rank and medals, an accomplished opera singer with time to serenade us, a world-renowned scholar of ancient China. That trip was wonderful; but after the Soviet Union disintegrated and Ukraine […]
[…] first pianist to make long-playing classical music recordings, and he championed great music from all over the world, including music by Mormon composers. Our project was his final recording. Mormoniana came to be available […]
[…] victims of Nazism by providing an exhaustive historical narrative of the Holocaust and to present visitors with an object lesson in the ethical ideals of American political culture by presenting the negation of those ideals.”
[…] romances slipped away. Still, sometimes I remember the fluttery-heart excitement of meeting a new, fresh-faced boy in a suit—and the world of romantic possibilities that lay in a handshake, a compliment, a look, a wink.
[…] in Utah in Hamblin’s day often referred to Indians as Lamanites. In fact, Mormons developed many typical American attitudes toward Indians —pursuing the policy of harsh punitive actions against them whenever it was deemed […]
[…] the film explored the fragile boundary Mormons put up to isolate themselves for fear of the outside world, unprepared for the fact that evil knows no such bounds. The sheriff is led down a […]