In Passing To Her Fathers
April 10, 2018In Saint George, Lena McCain had cancer.
She set her house in order.
In Las Vegas, the doctors went after the cancer with a knife,
got it, watched her closely.
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Patriarchal Blessings and the Routinization of Charisma
April 10, 2018
Bean Counting
April 10, 2018She adds up all the names
people have given her over the years:
‘Vain, difficult, cold.”
Someone once told her that
Anti-Christian Fundamentalism | R. A. Gilbert, Casting the First Stone: The Hypocrisy of Religious Fundamentalism and Its Threat to Society
April 10, 2018R. A. Gilbert’s book, Casting the First Stone, is one of an increasing number of written responses to uninformed attacks by Fundamentalists against new religious movements and any other religious group which does not fit…
Non-Traditional Christianity | Daniel C. Peterson and Stephen D. Ricks, Offenders for a Word: How Anti-Mormons Play Word Games to Attack the Latter-day Saints
April 10, 2018Although Hugh Nibley has often argued that there is no such a thing as a Mormon theology (theology being intrinsically incompatible with continuous revelation), a number of Nibley’s followers have produced what in any other…
A Question of Perspective | Marjorie Newton, Hero or Traitor: A Biographical Study of Charles Wesley Wandell
April 10, 2018Marjorie Newton’s 60-page biography of Charles Wesley Wandell, Hero or Traitor, inaugurates the John Whitmer Historical Association’s scholarly monograph series. Those who have read her prize-winning Southern Cross Saints: The Mormons in Austrailia will be…
A Shifting Stance | Erich Robert Paul, Science, Religion, and Mormon Cosmology
April 10, 2018This is not just another book on science and Mormonism. Mercifully ab sent, for example, are inconclusive and dubious attempts to harmonize different scriptural versions of the Creation with each other and with modern scientific…
Lost on Both Sides
April 10, 2018I suppose we all share the same space at one time or another. One can search out these spaces, as I have. Outside Paris I spent an afternoon mulling about in Malmaison, Napoleon and Josephine’s…
Freedom of Conscience: A Personal Statement
April 10, 2018