[…] many of the families with whom 1 had been acquainted. In the FLDS community, there is no dating or courtship before marriage. Young people can get to know each other through association at school, […]
[…] journals. Despite the huge Mormon missionary network, claiming between 19 percent and 25 percent of the total Christian missionary force, Mormons lack substantial representation in the discipline. The Mormon Church has never declared an […]
[…] Protestant” (considering itself not as a part of the Reformation, but as a restoration of the primitive Christian church). And as a respectable Mormonism in modern America, the RLDS Church did not try very […]
[…] that early Jewish writings invoked Noah’s curse to explain the black skin of the Africans. Among early Christian fathers, both Jerome and Augustine accepted the Ham genealogy for Negroes, and this belief is said […]
[…] that early Jewish writings invoked Noah’s curse to explain the black skin of the Africans. Among early Christian fathers, both Jerome and Augustine accepted the Ham genealogy for Negroes, and this belief is said […]
[…] that led to the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in the year 70 seriously injured the Christian community. There were migrations of the faithful and difficulties with the Jewish authorities; by the end […]
[…] that early Jewish writings invoked Noah’s curse to explain the black skin of the Africans. Among early Christian fathers, both Jerome and Augustine accepted the Ham genealogy for Negroes, and this belief is said […]
Last summer, while I was reading the Salt Lake Tribune, I stumbled across the obituary of a beautiful woman who looked uncannily like my older sister, Ann. That’s why I read her obituary. Only when I saw the list of Lisa McPhie’s survivors did I realize she was Lisa Lundberg, who had grown up with me on a quiet tree-lined street in Salt Lake City. Her older sisters were my best friends in junior high school. We were inseparable then. Thirty years later, Lisa, who watched our teenage escapades with a hint of boredom, was dead of a rare blood disorder that had defied diagnosis since she first became ill in 1985.
[…] ability of the hypothesis to support such fine distinctions. I similarly tend toward a certain agnosticism on dating issues; I find the various arguments over dat ing to be the weakest parts of the […]
[…] recent valued family ties is possible, and the converts’ lin eage is snapped into pre- and post- Christian. Such an arrangement seems unjust. Why should the Christian mes sage have been rushed to the […]