[…] a totally non-religious individual, I found a sensitivity to human needs (particularly those of women), a tolerance for others’ views, and a political and social awareness which I felt should be the hallmark of […]
[…] one of fourteen adults in the school; only two of them graduated from the eighth grade ( 6:108- 9). He remembered his family had had four children die within one two-week period at Lee’s […]
[…] can expect to be involved in marital violence at some time during marriage. One in twenty-two, or 3.8 percent, of wives are the victims of violence likely to produce injury each year. Six of […]
[…] they support as prophet has seen none of them. Sonia Johnson was excommunicated from the Church on 6 December 1979. The night of her Church court, several Forum members attended a vigil held in […]
[…] and culture just as Perry Miller and Henry Nash Smith aided understanding a generation ago. After working for twelve years on Illusions of Innocence: Protestant Primitivism in America, 1630-1875, Richard T. Hughes and C. […]
[…] family,” I would complain. “Arrange for someone to stay with you when you are sick,” she would counter. Her solutions were obvious. My family and I had been too upset to find them. We […]
[…] The New Revelation and The Vital Message, was very different “from true inspiration or revelation from God!” (1920, 6-13). While noting the similarities between Mormon and spiritualist belief concerning the spirit world, West reiterated Talmage’s […]
<i>Dialogue 23.4 (Winter 1990): 83–96</i><br>This essay explores some of the strengths of deliberately choosing to relate to our world with gender-inclusive language in three areas
[…] felt like a prophet was in 1969, in the midst of the threatened and sometimes actual violence over the Church’s denial of priesthood to blacks. In that bleak time, during which I attended the […]
[…] token effort at best, one to soothe my parents’ consciences. Besides, I had no idea what to buy kids age six, nine, eleven, and sixteen. But once at the store, Kim and Becky—high school […]