[…] Church and its membership for meddling in American politics and in American bedrooms. But the national uproar over the Church’s political involvement on gay rights issues became a local controversy in July 2009. Two […]
[…] pen name Obadiah Dogberry. Early church leaders first confronted Cole and then had to seek arbitration in order to stop him from this piracy. I knew prior to reading this book that the first […]
In The American Religion, critic Harold Bloom begins his analysis of Mormonism with this well-known prophesy about the future of Mormon literature: A major American poet, perhaps one called a Gentile by the Latter-day […]
[…] we don’t know what those garments looked like. Sarah created memorable meals for her guests (Genesis 18: 6), but we don’t know her recipes. The daughters of the Lamanites danced in delight (Mosiah 20:1), […]
[…] was teaching gospel doctrine class in the San Lorenzo Valley Ward (Santa Cruz Stake). On one Sunday, in order to help the class understand a particularly dense passage from one of Paul’s letters, I had […]
[…] death in that culture, or that LDS graphic designers had to create a new, 20,000-character font in order to publish the Book of Mormon in Urdu. More important than the shifts in the book’s […]
[…] and issues a call for more attention to “social, cultural, and religious contexts around the world [in order to] provide a more accurate picture of Mor monism as a global religion” (386). The closest […]
[…] the beginnings in Kirtland, Ohio, which gave her and her family a leg up in the pecking order among their fellow Mormons. When I glanced at Sandrine, I saw she had relaxed. I supposed […]
[…] church. I soon learned that Mormons had redefined tongues into the ability to learn languages faster in order to do missionary work. That was okay, though, because I didn’t really want to speak in […]
[…] eternal as charity in the Book of Mormon (2 Nephi 28:7–9, 22, Alma 3:26, 42:16, Hela man 6:28, 7:26, Mormon 8:38), as are decrees of God (Ether 2:10), as is priesthood (Alma 13:7–9), as […]