[…] Drought and insect infestations were seen as trials. In Mormon landscape ecology “living right” was crucial in order to earn both God’s favor and worldly gain (165). Wright contrasts the Saints’ early idealism with […]
[…] Hyrum Andrus’s little 1965 book on Mormonism and conservative politics, in which the author posits that, “in order to meet the problems that currently confront them, Latter-day Saints are bound by that which they […]
Snow falling into the pond leaves you weak with its metaphor of sadness, as though all that makes you could be instantly broken down,
[…] to hold those who cannot hold on by themselves. Another common Japanese trait, docility and respect for order and authority has presented the church with a dilemma. When the question was raised about why […]
[…] unprecedented number of Pakeha converts. As Barker observed, “The proportion of Pakeha church members increased from 18. 6 percent in 1951 to 32.3 percent in 1961.” The ethnic mix of the postwar New Zealand church […]
[…] best we can do in most cases is to study the present and the immediate past in order to tease out trends likely to persist into the future. As a matter of editorial policy […]
[…] us. In later years he transferred the surviving films to video, placing all the Christmas movies in order, starting with 1957. I have to laugh. Furnishings and gifts change from year to year, but […]
[…] apocalyptic art was virtually unseen. Art patronage during the Victorian age was more concerned with reason and order. Art that grew out of religious worship was supplanted by a reverence for pastoral serenity. The […]
[…] Mormon, who, feeling love and sexual attraction, must repress such feelings for his or her entire life in order to remain in the church, without hope of any human sexual expression ever. The second poem […]
[…] since—while “not inherently opposed to private visions”—he also “believejs] that the Lord’s house is a house of order.” Only “when the revelation leads people toward the gospel and Church of Jesus Christ,” may one […]