[…] we generally refer to as objective,” and that they must be interpreted as “metaphorical communications” (1983, 5- 6). Classifying the New Mormon History If the traditionalists are in error in calling the New Mormon […]
[…] Jenson, B. H. Roberts, Wil burn Talbot, Wayne A. Jacobsen, Leonard J. Arrington, and others have been over the same road before. What is important here is that finally someone has published in one […]
[…] had mixed up that morning on the kitchen table along with the dress pattern I had bought for my new niece. It had been months since I had felt this energetic, and so that […]
[…] pentacostalism of early Christianity. But Harris eventually rejected the congregation as lacking proper authority (M. Harris 1870, 3; Hatch 1980). Looking back on these years, he remembered feeling a strong sense of mission. God, […]
[…] tory of the Mormons. He began research on that history in the 1930s, plugged away at it for most of the rest of his life, but never finished it because of a protracted series […]
[…] in the mood for testimonies about the star-spangled banner. Besides that, I was hungry. But when the sacrament was over, I stayed. I thought my motivation was guilt, but now I know it was grace.
[…] ambiguity: God’s patience with what clearly seems to be Gideon’s sign-seeking using bedewed and dry fleeces (Judges 6) and his seeming impatience with the quite natural question of Zacharias in the temple about his […]
[…] I suppose that any Jewish or Christian practice that subordinates women to men justifies itself through Genesis 3:16: “Your desire shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you.” Have we not […]
[…] I find me a ripe young woman.” “Maybe you need a ripe old chiropractor.” “I think I’ll buy me an eighteen-year-old Somalian,” he says, smiling into the river beyond me. He has already shed […]
[…] (Johnson 1985). Last year many executives picked up over a million dollars each—including some who averaged $ 6,000 a day {Business Week, 5 May 1986, pp. 48-80). While this excess occurs, 30 million Americans […]