[…] not what you’d expect from a Latin American woman. Her parents were German, immigrants who came before World War II to Tupambay. Johann Vogle, a carpenter, had become a prosperous building contractor. The two […]
[…] same phenomena, but his different lens of understanding (literalistic Biblical) led him to experience a radically different world from Darwin’s. When Darwin began publishing his findings soon after his return to England, Fitzroy felt […]
[…] thee my unworthiness, I fear for him lest he turn back to the begerly elements of the world” (8 March). After speaking in Potsdam village, 29 March 1833, to what he termed “an indecent […]
[…] corner of a room that Vermeer painted again and again, as if he might understand the whole world through one place seen completely. Then I hurried down the long hall, past the antique pianofortes, […]
[…] better and to shed light on regionalism’s influence on Mormon history. In the years between the two world wars, regionalism loomed large in American thought. Artists, novelists, poets, pundits, historians, social scientists, and the […]
This dialogue of anguished questioning and consolation has an intensely personal meaning to me. The 1980s were a decade that severely tested my faith in Heavenly Father and my commitment to the Church. Whatever […]
[…] Negative attitudes toward human sexuality can be traced back at least to Plato, who believed that the material world is a corruption of the spiritual or ideal world, and that the tangible, corporeal world is […]
[…] and essays dealing with the way men and women should behave—both within the Church and in the world at large. At varying times, these readings have evoked in me feelings of sympathy, restless ness, […]
[…] and the Profane contrasts religious man—”homo religiousus”—with rational man (1959, 15). He finds in our modern mode a world view that fails to give credence to a world charged with symbols and compares it to […]
[…] that Puritan “preparation of the heart” that had to precede communion. Here may be Mormonism’s entry into that world of contemplation marked by great devotional literature, a mood and mode that gets crowded out in […]