The Charity of Silence
March 29, 2018[…] there. It was a place that lay beyond my fatherβs reach. My mother used to shear her sheep there, card the wool, and get it ready to spin into yarn and thread for her […]
[…] there. It was a place that lay beyond my fatherβs reach. My mother used to shear her sheep there, card the wool, and get it ready to spin into yarn and thread for her […]
In October of 1993 Dallin H. Oaks, an apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and Steve Benson, editorial cartoonist for the Arizona Republic and eldest grandson of former LDS president […]
[…] sheer ignorance. The young man in βIphigenia in Oremβ turns out to be a patriarchal monster in sheepβs clothing. He may in fact sit next to me in sacrament meeting. In Bash, victimization begets […]
Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have engaged in missionary work since the year of the religion’s founding. But sociological research on the experience of these missionaries is still young […]
[…] of power: exploitative, “the simplest and, humanly speaking, most destructive kind of power”; manipulative, which is “power over another person”; competitive, “power against another”; nutrient, “power for the other”; and integrative, “power with another person.”
[…] flat-earth cosmology of antiquity into the doctrinal system of the Christian Church. Early Christian theologians found support for this worldview, which everyone at the time assumed to be literally valid, in biblical references to […]
[…] of critical attention. Obviously, in proposing a “marriage group” of contemporary Mormon short stories, I cannot expect to discover the kind of “conversation” or “debate” that Chaucerians from Kittredge to Kaske and beyond have analyzed.
Seven and a half blocks east and five blocks south of the Salt Lake Temple, the 0,0 of the city’s cardinally aligned grid, an inconspicuous gate on the north side of the street opens […]
<i>Dialogue 38.3 (Spring 2004): 1β74</i><br>Bergera uses evidence from plural wives to show who some of the first polygamists were in the church.
[…] controversy hinges on the question of when the spirit enters the body. If a spirit were predestined for a given mortalbody and that body is aborted before birth, the spirit would, technically,never be able […]