[…] magazines. The new publications are a key part of the great, self-reinforcing gospel mandala. They put into writing, drawing and photograph the same ideas that flow from the pulpit. Spiritual ideas, once outlined only […]
[…] is trying to hook. His father’s maxim, “Blame is not important. Whose fault it is will not get anything fixed”, introduces the book and provides the easy-going tone, devoid of much rancor, in which […]
[…] we are told in the next verse that “the cunning plan of the evil one” is to get us to do just that; trying, in Brigham Young’s phrase, to “decoy our thoughts,” to get […]
[…] were—and still are—important. As the Church struggled for its corporate life, its members saw more value in writing of those things which fostered group identity than they did in examining those individual characteristics which […]
[…] a more-calculating leader, a man utterly without remorse or conscience, who had come to believe, during his service to the Church, that any means were justified in strengthening or defending the true faith, and […]
[…] these structures were excellently engineered and were used as accurate lunar observatories. R. J. C. Atkinson ( writing in the Journal for the History of Astronomy) has pointed out that the astronomical studies involved […]
[…] of his lack of self-worth in the Mormon subculture, with no reference to his compassion, charity, community service or other virtues and deeds. Or an adolescent may attempt to emancipate himself from childhood dependency […]
[…] On the general correlation committee? What is the impact of their virtual isolation from the Mormon “civil service,” including the church building department, the social services department and the seminaries and institutes? In the […]
Only rarely does a piece of writing capture the imagination of both novice and professional alike. Even more infrequently does such a work begin as a Ph.D. dissertation or master’s thesis. Certainly the most […]
[…] attitude seems to have backed away from his liberality of the 1860s and 1870s. We find him writing in an editorial in the Saints’ Herald in 1893 that even though the gospel is for […]