It was in the year 1930, after an unusual “calling” from the Church, that I made a momentous personal decision: to enter the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and work toward the […]
[…] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” Brigham Young University, 1971. Schrader, David Frederick. “Satisfaction with Parenthood over Eight Stages of the Life Cycle for Latter-day Saint Couples: An Exploratory Study.” Brigham Young University, […]
[…] necessity. But even Jefferson would agree that religious faith was necessary for the stability of the social order. The Baptists, Presbyterians and Methodists who supported him were intent not upon the destruction of religious […]
So much of Utah’s early history has religious significance that the artist attempting to preserve its heritage has often found himself interpreting people and events of some concern to the Mormon Church. To the […]
[…] excluded (or, when necessary, tolerated). At one time, longer in Arizona than elsewhere, it meant the United Order of communal living, the community being one total family of cooperating individual families. For a time […]
[…] lying . . . and deceit, and immorality and a breakdown of decency and of law and order in our country,” President Harold B. Lee suggested that it was precisely the gospel principles that […]
[…] tithing as if they were paying on an insurance policy. or in a discussion of the United Order with Brother Gardiner: In theory, Brother Gardiner. It’s all very beautiful in theory—both the Order and […]
[…] thought the conclusion of this is that we should put far more effort into reducing population in order to permit increased per capita energy consumption, so that this is an argument that can very […]
[…] earth,” the earth was tohu wa-bohu, that is, it was all undifferentiated, unformed and void. To introduce order into this chaos it was necessary to produce several sets of binary oppositions, clearly dividing that […]
[…] As I kneeled down, my petition was, “What kind of an organization should be set up in order to accomplish what the Presidency has assigned?” And there came to me on that glorious morning […]