[…] of authority, internal structure and religious belief, since the Church is still dynamic in all these areas today. But by 1882 important strides had been made toward stabilizing and institutionalizing procedures and principles. For […]
[…] will be that which provides for and encourages the most meaningful and constant decision making. Similarly for politics and society: that political and social system is best which provides the broadest base and develops […]
[…] Alsop has well said, “Out of our closeness to the frontier there has grown, I think, an American cult of ugliness. When survival came first, a man who cared about beauty would be hounded […]
[…] If the study of symbol and myth has become perhaps an overworked field in certain areas of American studies, this cannot be said in regard to Mormon ism, and much can still be added […]
[…] pictures I was seeing. After several of the reviews I wrote for Crossroads appeared in a church newsletter, a lady came up to me after Sunday school one morning and despaired aloud: “Don’t you […]
[…] even ask, why is there an official church silence with respect to participation in this war which today is so unnecessary, so terrible in its conduct and character, whose enormities and excesses are so […]
[…] of Mormonism: “On the ‘Hill of Cumorah’ near Palmyra, New York, began the most controversial period in American religious communal living, now commonly called Mormonism.” “The origin of the Mormon Church appears to have […]
[…] useable form the printing of two documents which deal with the first Masonic Lodge organized at Nauvoo and the rapidity with which it grew. At Nauvoo in 1841 there resided a number of men […]
[…] means by this assessment. He does so in a series of essays covering such topics as “ Politics and the Religious Crisis,” “Christianity, Humanism, and Science,” “Christianity and the Atheism of Contemporary Youth,” and […]
[…] the fact that they were “called” make all or most of the difference? How can one feel today that he is “called” to live where he is living and to pursue the type of […]