A Survey of Current Literature
May 4, 2018[…] its adherents to think for themselves, and quotes William J. Whalen’s The Latter-day Saints in the Modern World (which he depends on heavily as “the best book on the Mormons”) to the effect that […]
[…] its adherents to think for themselves, and quotes William J. Whalen’s The Latter-day Saints in the Modern World (which he depends on heavily as “the best book on the Mormons”) to the effect that […]
[…] For our pioneer ancestors, worship was not a running away or withdrawal from the battles of the world; neither was it an ostrich-like refusal to look problems in the face. They could not, even […]
[…] not, have entered the Secular City. This term, coined by Harvey Cox, expresses (in “secular”) a “this worldness”—meaning that the work of the world must be done by man himself, and (in “city”) all […]
[…] of the number and/or spacing of children. This is a widespread practice today, especially in the western world, and most population specialists argue that considerably greater control of this sort is urgently needed if […]
[…] are, I believe, a few which may be especially appropriate for Latter-day Saints beginning to explore the world of Bible scholarship, since they are reasonably sound without demanding the technical background required to wade […]
[…] somewhere on the backroads of the cosmos there may be a sunny meadow where gods create not new worlds but works of fancy to amuse their fellows. You know the kind of people I mean—minstrels, […]
[…] no right to listen to me. Even to myself I often seem to be off in another world, in another space, in another time—and if not really there, to at least wish I were. […]
[…] faith is (Mormon) the Latter day Saints. We are living under capitalism and the wealth of the world is privately owned by individuals, . . . but this building is collectively owned by the […]
Dialogue 16.3 (Fall 1984): 69-76
Emma spent her remaining years far removed from the associates who had helped shape the events of that first decade of the Nauvoo period. Like those around her, she did […]
[…] a legend before her retirement, called again. Would she? She would. Now she is on Monday’s noon news with a “Good Friends” feature, chatting over the fence of a home in the Marmalade District […]