[…] that Adam was the first man and that only with his fall did death enter into the world. At this point Roberts clearly faced a dilemma. To him the evidence for the antiquity of […]
What do the phrases “Mormon novel” and “Mormon novelist” mean? Maybe in the first place we are incautious not to separate novel from novelist. Suppose a “Mormon novelist” in a quite strenuous sense: nominally […]
[…] the circle of home, neighbors, and ward rather than reaching out to the wider community or the world. But one decade was different, infused by an unusual degree of organized activism against poverty and […]
[…] a personal choice, the second a national or even universal choice. Given what has happened in the world since the fifties, we may already have made that choice. By building and deploying and stockpiling […]
[…] two decades has been to bring a measure of objectivity to our perceptions of ourselves and our world. This, of course, is the stuff of serious scholarship everywhere. Lavina: How objective do you think […]
[…] with personally, he would share with you his story of why he decided to run. To the world, it looked like vain ambition. To the many who try to follow promptings in their lives, […]
[…] her adult life with her husband, Henry Stark, a research chemist. Adoptive parents of three, they nurtured the Delaware Branch from its ecclesiastical preexistence until it became the Delaware Stake in 1974, only five […]
[…] from the particular matrix of RLDS symbols, stories, and events; the wider Christian community; and the modern world. Undergirding such theologies will be the conviction that God is at work in and through all […]
[…] nationalities and races—the Depression-born Works Progress Administration (WPA) would count twenty-eight in my town. This was a world of anxiety for a child of immigrant parents. Stepping out of the home each day meant […]
[…] the English language and law, in describing the paradigmatic shift from early feudal European society to a world of secular, territorial nation-states and market economy, observed that we had moved “from status to contract.” […]