Letter to the Editor
March 16, 2018[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] a “Heracles, a Beowulf, a Gilgamesh, an Odysseus,” who sought out the living and the dead in order to place them into family relationships that would link the heavens to the earth (12). The […]
I am a relative newcomer to the academic side of Mormon history. I never traded photocopies of photocopies of historical documents. I only know of the most scandalous shenanigans in the field through my […]
To the young ravens which cry Songs in the night, Stormy wind fulfilling, Saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed
[…] Smith’s death, were embellished, and the Mormon leaders in Utah were depicted as Eastern potentates reigning supreme over their extensive harems. Fluhman describes how such practices made the Mormons themselves seem alien, and, as […]