Sarah M. Pratt: The Shaping of an Apostate
April 17, 2018[…] Far West , to pre pare for a great mission.” Orson put his New York affairs in order and the family started west, but river ice and Sarah’s second pregnancy made travel beyond Saint […]
[…] Far West , to pre pare for a great mission.” Orson put his New York affairs in order and the family started west, but river ice and Sarah’s second pregnancy made travel beyond Saint […]
[…] Heaven: the second existed here. The first was perpetrated by the highest, the second by the lowest, order of Intelligent creatures. These two are with high probability the only instances, in which the Ruler […]
[…] “and with fire” did not originally stand in the text of Mark. Furthermore, the JST inverts the order of “Holy Ghost” and “fire,” probably because the JST is primarily concerned with a separate question: […]
[…] they are beings. They, and the Bible particularly, must be dealt with on their own terms in order to be understood. These works must be dealt with in their own language and are not […]
[…] brother, Joseph Sr., on a mission to the branches of the Eastern states “to set them in order and confer on the brethren their patriarchal blessings” (HC 2:446). The trip apprenticed John for his […]
[…] or even disfellowship for sexual sin. I believe it can achieve its purposes of teaching propriety and order without such punitive measures, which indeed seem startlingly contrary to the Church’s mission of saving rather […]
[…] in his possession $24,000 of territorial funds, as well as the seal and records of Utah. In order to prevent the removal of these funds, records, and seal, the legislature passed a resolution authorizing […]
[…] its highest divinity cannot allow its women to experience themselves as the equals of its men. In order to develop a theology of women’s liberation, feminists have to leave Christ and Bible behind them. […]
[…] W. Grant McMurray, who served as president of Community of Christ (1996–2004), on February 22, 2010, at the Prince home in Potomac, Maryland. Both the historic name of the Church (the Reorganized Church of […]
[…] revealed in folklore. Every culture has its own creation myths—a body of narratives explaining how the social order came into being and providing models after which people in the present should pattern their behavior. […]