[…] Presidency Statement, 14 Apr. 1969, quoted in Bush, 27. Bush, 32. “Church Issues Statement on Abortion,” Ensign 6 (July 1976): 76. For a review of the church’s stance on abortion, as well as other […]
[…] give us. I like that idea. It vindicates us to a great extent, but I don’t totally buy it. My own faith includes room for fallibility even in ecclesiastical leaders. I personally find Brigham […]
[…] close friend Helen Madsen McKinney, artist and devoted neighbor Osral Allred. Strangers appeared too: collectors hoping to buy her art. Memorial Day visitors touring the historical homes of Spring City, and the curious from […]
[…] use and the role it plays in the ways Mormons accommodate the larger society. What has not been examined, however, are the ways mass media, such as movies, television, newspapers, etc., tend to describe Mormons.
[…] conference agenda turned out kind of thin. And when, in fact, the Regional Representative delayed the conference over half an hour, leaving more than two hundred assembled women to practice hymns and grudging patience […]
[…] the first gun shot turns a battle scene into a battle.” ‘We trust you,’ his parents said over and over, until Todd wanted to scream, ‘Please don’t. I think I might be a ma […]
[…] first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy, and good fruits (James 3:13,17). Likewise Alma urges that the followers of Christ be “humble, and be submissive and gentle; easy […]
[…] he continued. They might spot and stain the carpet. No heels on women’s shoes. No music or 3×5 note cards to remind us of our words and music. “Be sure to remember your white […]
Amulek asks us a rhetorical question, “Now, if a man murdereth, be hold will our law, which is just, take the life of his brother?”(Alma 34:11). Obviously the answer is no, and Amulek says as […]
[…] the Messiah The next tableau is the striking scene of Jesus being anointed (Mark 14:3-9; Matt. 26: 6-13; John 12:1-8; Luke 7:36-50). The word “Christ,” Khristos, simply means, “the anointed ,” or “he who […]