[…] of optimism, a broadening of interests, the pursuit of knowledge and excellence in varied fields seemed the order of the day. But during the Mormon Reformation of 1856-57, pluralism was discouraged, and many such […]
[…] definite possibility.” Slipping graveward through that weekend, what did I do? Did I set my house in order? Did I write my will? Did I repent of my longstanding sins? I took the doctor’s […]
[…] that perplexity is perhaps not the problem but the solution. I will discuss her points in reverse order. If, as Lynn suggests, Mormonism is a religion whose aim is unambiguous truth, there is little […]
[…] Isaiah’s prophecies in their historical context and compares their meaning as a message for his time with the expanded meaning that Christians — and specifically Mormons — have since applied to them thousands of […]
[…] becomes obvious that this definition of the commandment results in outright disobedience to the original commandment. In order to discover the level of conformity to the divine injunction to sweat, we conducted the following […]
[…] behind the eighty-ninth section. And the word communitarian to describe practices and institutions such as the United Order was frowned upon; too close to “communism,” one imagines. These criticisms, however oblique in not mentioning […]
[…] of false charity, most of the speculation about continuing singleness fell in this cate gory. In chronological order, men are purported to suffer from: disability (1892), inability to support a wife (1913), incompetence (1974), […]
[…] next notice our adrenalin surge as two more women kill and scalp ten of their captors in order to escape. But such tales are incidental to the intent of the book. The author possesses […]
[…] However, the issue of translation raises a problem of internal consistency in Book of Mormon Authorship. In order to make sense of applying a wordprint analysis, one must assume that the “translation process was […]
[…] image of God examining his own creation is that of a mechanic “admiring the beauty, regularity and order of its motions” (13:234). “God saw that it was good” by the rational contemplation of its […]