The October 2011 issue of Harper’s Magazine features as its cover article a lengthy, provocative, at times insightful, but mostly wholly tendentious anti-Mormon screed by Chris Lehmann, entitled “Pennies from Heaven.”
[…] consequence of his particular distinction between religion and magic, Quinn differs with the defensive Mormon writers only over the timing of Mormon ism’s renunciation of magic, and not with their insistence that their faith […]
[…] resulting from these revelations gave rise to another symposium and panel, held at Brigham Young University on 6 August 1987. This panel convened to explore two questions in relation to the Mark Hofmann forgeries: […]
[…] as death; many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it” (S. of S. 8: 6-7) —but who refuse to say “all is well in Zion; yea, Zion prospereth, all is well” […]
Southern Illinois in sweltering and wet summer. Thunder and the whippoorwill sing strange duets at night. From southwestern deserts to the closest
[…] for my actual spiritual formation. But I have wanted to defend my vision of Mormon potential in order to try to help transform internecine struggle into solidarity against our common foes—irreligion and decadence. [1] […]
[…] 229-33, and in “The Word of Our God Will Stand,” Improvement Era 57 (June 1954) : 404- 6. For a possible source of this story, see Dov Joseph, The Faithful City: Siege of Jerusalem, […]
[…] authors add no extraneous details, assumptions, or conjecture. They let the facts speak for themselves, without glossing over anything — including serious mistakes made by some LDS General Authorities. The form of the book […]
[…] of excruciating confrontations with myself. I know I don’t understand the positions he had to take in order to meet the responsibilities of his calling. Still, too many faces haunt me — too many […]
[…] describe the position of these “traditionalist” critics. Furthermore, what he does say about them is often confusing[ 6] as well as difficult to follow since a number of his references are to works that […]