[…] presenting my research on 1970s Mormon motherhood at a national rhetoric conference in 2017, a woman in the audience (also a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) called my research […]
The following thoughts come from my experience as a faithful and ortho dox Latter-day Saint, as a Mormon bishop, as a critic of some aspects of institutionalized Mormonism, and as an activist and […]
[…] of the social and economic instrument of restorationism represented by Mormon communitarianism (chiefly expressed in the United Order of Enoch); of the new historical framework (the Book of Mormon). All these may be explained […]
[…] These belong to the people: all the people.”[5] The height of collectivism was reached in the United Order movement of the 1870’s. Various types of orders were instituted, and in some of them, as […]
[…] of class interest, the framers were seen to be seeking a balance in government that would keep order while preserving liberty, and they were generally acknowledged to have succeeded. Now the consensus of historical […]
[…] with the “glory of God” permeates Andrus’ writings. Both traditional and neoorthodox Protestantism emphasize the creation in order to exaggerate the differences between God and man. The central meaning of the ex nihilo creation, […]
The two following commentaries on O. Kendall White’s “The Transformation of Mormon Theology” (Summer 1970) were received as Letters to the Editor, but due to their length we felt they would receive more […]
[…] condensed version currently presented to tourists in Salt Lake City. The music, however, deservedly lives on. The Order Is Love, by a full Mormon team (story, lyrics and music) has reversed this situation in […]
Among the things Mormon brought into the spotlight by the Sonia Johnson affair, perhaps the least well understood was the LDS notion of “excommunication.” To non-Mormons the process seemed, in Phil Donahue’s widely heard […]
[…] the assurance that the “Angel of Vengeance shall. . . nerve and strengthen thee” in issuing the order to John D. Lee which, through a chain of literal-minded obedience to literally conceived orders, led […]