[…] Mormon, who, feeling love and sexual attraction, must repress such feelings for his or her entire life in order to remain in the church, without hope of any human sexual expression ever. The second poem […]
[…] since—while “not inherently opposed to private visions”—he also “believejs] that the Lord’s house is a house of order.” Only “when the revelation leads people toward the gospel and Church of Jesus Christ,” may one […]
[…] toward respectability and assimilation with the larger society in the latter half of the twentieth century in order to retain its distinctive character, it has, once again, increasingly asserted its opposition to, and distinctiveness […]
[…] J. Hamblin have claimed that Oliver Cowdery first christened the upstate New York hill “Cumorah” in 1835.[ 6] I cited a source from January 1833 in which William W. Phelps explicitly identified the New […]
[…] voluntarily suspended my temple worship after our meeting on May 2.1 did so because I respect the order of the Church that provides a system of shared responsibility for determining temple worthiness. I will […]
[…] values. We simply extend the familiar into the realm of the cosmic, so the argument goes, in order to make the cosmos more comfortable. Now there is surely a degree of reaffirmation of belief […]
Dialogue 29.4 (Winter 1996): 119–135 The Book of Mormon variously uses “white” and “pure” in the same verse in different editions. This article traces the history of those changes, who was behind them, and why.
[…] and anyone who associated with Romans was seen as a traitor to the native country and religion.[ 6] However, Jesus deliberately talked and even ate with gentiles, “sinners,” and tax collectors.[7] It is important […]
[…] of the early church, which dressed Jesus in the robes of a miracle worker like Elijah in order to compete in the first-century marketplace of religion? Or do at least some of the miracle […]
[…] us. And the house, the bed, is silent. Except for that ticking. *** Sunday morning paper. The order is religious: comics, calendar, sports (Lakers by four), money, metro, front page. No matter how bad […]