[…] Relief Society class 20 years after my conversion. The teacher launched into a lesson on the patriarchal order and outlined a doctrine of “God speaks to Man, Man speaks to woman.” Aware that there […]
Like many baby-boomers, philosopher Roger Scruton as a young man accepted the sexual standards of his generation, eschewing marriage in favor of “experiments” with less binding relationships. Scruton finally did marry when he found […]
[…] Sister Welker,” Elder George said, “at least we can tell you think about these things.” *** In order to introduce all his missionaries to the revised discussions implemented church-wide in 1985, President Gardiner planned […]
[…] interest.” At this point, Oakes defers his discussion of the final stage of the prophetic vocation in order to present his reflections on “The Followers and Their Quest” and “The Soul of the Prophet.” […]
[…] found that some missionaries had a more favorable impression. They pointed to Hitler’s oratorical skills, commitment to order and efficiency, efforts at political stability, and support for marriage, motherhood, and the family. He even […]
My “interview” with Diana Hirschi was not so much an interview as a wonderfully civilized conversation over dinner at the Singing Cricket in Salt Lake City. I had never met Diana before, but Karen […]
[…] at any anger in the world. Gordon B. Hinckley, “The Times in Which We Live,” Saturday, October 6, 2001, LDS General Conference, retrieved in November 2003 from www.lds.org. Ibid. Gordon B. Hinckley, “Till We […]
[…] including the famous The Kiss, because they were regarded as “inappropriate.” Deseret News, November 14, 1997, Bl, online edition. Henry Warner Bowdoin, “From the Age of Science to an Age of Uncertainty: History and […]
[…] my family and started my 1964 campaign for the congressional seat which I had just vacated in order to run for the Senate. Fortunately for me, Sherman P. Lloyd, who had won that seat […]
[…] the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980, has little patience with Frost’s statement (quoted by Hughes, 5- 6) that writing free verse is like “playing tennis with the net down,” especially coming from a […]