[…] than his own which even approached a correct understanding of the heavenly model of religious and social order.[4] Elsewhere the extraordinary and ambiguous kinship between the two seemingly polar opposite movements of the Shakers […]
[…] “higher criticism” specifically to the Documentary Hypothesis itself. J. G. Eichorn coined the expression “higher criticism” in order to distinguish broad literary-historical criticism from narrow textual or “lower” criticism, which is devoted to the […]
[…] “We are going to have to get quite a few more [subscribers] than we now have in order to print the rest of the issues this year.” Time was of the essence: “We will […]
[…] the lineal transfer of authority and the claim that the “keys” are “tied to any office, or order in the church” as a “deep delusion of the antichrist.” Instead, keys should be considered synonymous […]
Apples! Bags and boxes of apples! So many of them lined the perimeter of our garage that the car hardly fit. It was mid-October, and I stood there counting the apples picked from our […]
[…] set of contradictions. Men should be steely, resolved, and assertive; women ought to be reserved, flighty, and, under the right conditions, sexually explosive. As historian Karen Lystra has observed, “There are no sexual absolutes. Sexual […]
For much of my life, I tried to be the man everyone expected me to be—faithful, successful, and called by God to lead—but inside, I struggled with gender dysphoria. My journey toward self-acceptance, detailed […]
If the Book of Mormon possesses, in the words of the late Elder Neal A. Maxwell, “divine architecture,” then it follows that one task of theology ought to be to seek God in the structure […]
[…] the infamous BSE ‘baby scoop era’ (1950–1970’s) and they, like our girl/mothers of previous generations, never got over the loss of their babies. It is important that these stories be told so their children—now […]
[…] me signifies a dual meaning: I am not only like a family member to her, but additionally, the term hermana is used among Spanish-speaking members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints […]