Utah has achieved the dubious distinction of making the pages of the prestigious organ of America’s publication industry, Publishers’ Weekly. To some the publicity achieved in the article “Bookstore Perishes in Wake of Utah […]
Progress implies change and for this writer the call to explore new opportunities has become more insistent in recent years. It will soon be ten years since this column appeared in the first issue […]
[…] of Thee Are Spoken,” by John Newton; “He Died! the Great Redeemer Died” and “Joy to the World” by Isaac Watts; and “Guide Us, O Thou Great Jehovah,” translated by Robert Robinson. William Wines […]
[…] to expand” his limited materials “into the necessary importance by finding their place and meaning in the world at large. … ” She went on to say that “As a writer and as a […]
[…] but as times go no man can be counted learned unless he is styled ‘Doctor.’ If the world is to believe in me, I must put on the lion’s skin. I have to fight […]
[…] relating my year’s learning to family and friends in the Church. My attitudes were those of another world, and the bottom line, the underlying assumption behind any exchange of views with fellow Mormons, was […]
[…] they were called) prepared the ground for the deists of the Enlightenment. In time a radically different world-view emerged from their writings: the mechanical universe governed by immutable natural laws, the transcendent God removed […]
[…] suggest, Mormonism’s version of the hero journey, of the historical and psychical or myth-historical view of a world and people ever growing. I would be almost willing to say that this motif is an […]
[…] in a state of “‘permanent revolution’ or metanoia which does not come to an end in this world, this life, or this time,” then a member of the Mormon Church is guaranteed that right—or […]
One is hopeful, upon reading Elder McConkie’s preface to his latest volume on the dealings of Christ with mankind, that new ground may be broken for Mormons in the recognition of modern findings and […]