[…] of this method is most obvious when one reflects on the number of Christian denominations in the world. One reason for this great number, I suggest, is that biblical interpreters using the “proof-text” method […]
[…] will take the J-Rig out of the water at South Cove. Tomorrow they’ll be back in the world of worry, but she pushes that out of her mind right now. Tomorrow worry. Today squint […]
[…] your thoughts—for ye have desired that ye might bring the souls of men unto me while the world shall stand,” and because of this, “Ye shall not have pain while ye shall dwell in […]
[…] All is stillness,” he said. “No elections, no police reports, no murders, no wars in our little world. It is a dream of the poets actually fulfilled.” Utah is very different today and so […]
Among many Mormons there exists a genuine distrust of psychiatry. Apprehensions arise partly from misconceptions about psychotherapy and partly from a stigma that many attach to anything associated with emotional disorders. Many believe “If […]
[…] to reach the flesh-and-blood Brigham Young, leaving us rather with a caricature of the man drawn from news accounts of the period; the founder of a new western empire is transformed into a paper […]
We Latter-day Saints not only declare that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired but also think of ourselves as standing ready to make a prophesied defense, perhaps even a rescue, of […]
[…] first time I participated in the “Hosanna Shout” I felt the presence of actual beings from another world joining us in that cry of praise and the following “Hosanna Anthem.” That was in the […]
If we accept the value Ms. Arbuthnot places upon books, the Mormon community is indeed rich. The editor of this column never ceases to be amazed by the quantity (and increasingly the quality) of […]
[…] from Monte McLaws’ doctoral dissertation, Spokesman for the Kingdom is a terse, well-researched biography of the Deseret News and Mormon journalism from 1830 to 1898. The book is thematically organized around the topics of […]