In his introduction to the 1996 Signature publication Tending the Garden, Gene England refers to “President Kimball’s 1977 call for a literature that includes the full range of Mormon experience: ‘struggles and frustrations; apostasies […]
[…] religion and lived adversity. He served as the congregational rabbi at the Temple Israel of Natick for over twenty-five years. Gregory A. Prince cofounded Virion Systems, Inc., a biotech company dedicated to the prevention […]
<i>Dialogue 47.1 (Spring 2014):1–23</i><br>This conclusion is obviously problematic, as it implies that the early Church repudiated teachings from the Book of Mormon immediately following its publication. Thus there is a need for a reassessment […]
[…] a “new” one when he hits that financial sweetspot right where the cost of fixing dents in order to pass inspection ends up being more than buying a certain brand of whole other car […]
[…] that thou is a nominative pronoun (a subject) and therefore never follows a preposition. If it doesn’t grate, then you are living, breathing evidence of the difficulties presented by archaic second-person pronouns in twenty-first-century Mormonism.
[…] its anti-intellectualism and its dogmatic moralism. He leaves the Church and attends the University of Utah in order to become a writer. Fisher’s most significant statement of his adult connection to Mormonism, I believe, […]
[…] personal identity as psychology’s “most puzzling puzzle.”The oracle of Delphi’s most famous charge—Know Yourself—affirms that human puzzlement over the nature of identity goes back to the early days of civilization, since the oracle would […]
[…] the women of her faith observe once a month, seven days after their menstrual cycle ends, in order to be “purified from uncleanness,” to use the words from 2 Samuel, chapter 11. While the […]
Most mainstream American Christian congregations sing hymns in unison. But The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has long favored congregational part-singing. Nevertheless, a small but vigorous LDS constituency in the past thirty […]
[…] historian of the American West, who was recently president of the Mormon History Association. <div class=”mceTemp”> <em><strong>THE TOPIC: </strong></em> Over the decades, Richard Turley and William MacKinnon have researched and written extensively about Utah’s long, contentious […]