On 9 November 1989 the world stood transfixed as television sets around the globe transmitted the fall of the Berlin Wall. Hundreds of thousands of East Germans streamed into Berlin to mount the wall […]
[…] taken to safeguard the church and this council, and to the maintenance of their dignity in the world, such ordinations were dependent upon joint action, first, on the presentation by the First Presidency to […]
[…] and every one, meticulously monitoring the comings and goings of the human race? Not just in this world but worlds without number? Every fallen follicle accounted for? Or was the monitoring more like wearing […]
[…] It might be best to illustrate my thesis by explaining the somewhat parallel circumstances I encountered during World War II at London headquarters of the Air Force Public Relations Office. On the ground floor […]
In one of his fascinating scientific survey books, this time dealing with the latest discoveries about the brain, Nigel Calder notes, “Two of the most self-evident characteristics of the conscious mind are that 1) […]
[…] Grant Family Correspondence, LDS Church Archives. Another wife complained that the frequently writing Rachel monopolized all the news, ibid. HJG to Florence , 8 June 1905, LC 39:832; RRG, Thirteenth Ward Relief Society Minutes, […]
[…] thirty years later. The Iron Curtain did not descend upon East Germany immediately at the end of World War II. The political isolation that would eventually be fall its citizens was not obvious to […]
[…] opportunities to live by light) are redeemed, resurrected and exalted into kingdoms of glory in a post-mortal world. In this view of mortal life as a testing ground replete with uncertainty and ambiguity, LGBTQ […]
[…] campuses, on the pages of ecumenical youth journals, in fraternities of younger ministers, and in the theological world generally. John T. Elson, writing in 1965 in Life, pointed out that Bonhoeffer’s books were gaining […]
[…] Texts (as translated in the RSV) Which is come vnto you, as it is in all the world, and bringeth foorth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day yee heard of […]