In Riverdale
March 29, 2018We returned to our beginnings
in August, with its crayola green
trees and grass, blue sky,
and yellow light so certainly imposed
We returned to our beginnings
in August, with its crayola green
trees and grass, blue sky,
and yellow light so certainly imposed
As Joseph Smith matured in his prophetic calling, he came to regard what he saw as the rational appeal of his developing theology as one of its chief virtues. Throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, this attitude continued to animate authoritative interpretations and defenses of Mormon doctrine offered by leading Mormon churchmen and intellectuals.
Beside
shards of earthen jars and bowls,
the Kachina-Child returns
in the desert’s smoldering gaze. He enters
D. Michael Quinn, a scholar for whom I have immense respect, has written what he calls a “prelude” to the national campaign in “defense of marriage” with reference particularly to the efforts of the LDS…
America is currently in the midst of state-by-state political activism and judicial appeals to prevent the legalization of same-sex marriage. In 1996 the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated one example of the related effort to roll back laws protecting homosexuals from civil discrimination, but this campaign moves forward on various fronts in every state of the Union. Its organizers will certainly extend this political activism into all states currently lacking a “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA) which both prohibits same-sex marriage and refuses to recognize such unions legally performed in other states or countries. In view of the pace for this state by-state political activism during the 1990s, the Defense of Marriage campaign will probably continue throughout the United States for at least another decade.
He said, “She said it means
Unable to have pleasure,
Unable to find it anywhere.
She put me on Zoloft to help.”
They say there is a Buddha
In each grain of sand
We begin huge and rigid. Life grinds
away at us. We grind against one another.
When one reviews a book on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a language other than English—regardless of the content of the book—the question of the significance of non-English books about Mor…
Mormon America is a comprehensive and instructive overview of Mor monism “for non-Mormons and Mor mons alike” (xi). Its scope, tone and readability reveal the best of Richard and Joan Ostling’s background in journalism. They…
The general public’s knowledge of Mormonism tends to be thinly mediated through certain stereotypical images: the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, well-scrubbed young missionaries, polygamy, large families, genealogy, sacred underwear, sentimental television commercials, upright (if not prudish)…