[…] 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. […]
[…] a caring or passionate involvement with being; most existential thinkers concur that truth must be lived in order to be truth. Religious existentialists, such as Kierkegaard, Buber, Marcel, and Paul Tillich, go a step […]
[…] him a little puffery. Fortunately, with only a few exceptions, he deserves it. I hope that United Order Books is more than a spasm on the poetic horizon, a few artists frantically waving their […]
Dialogue 24.1 (Spring 1991): 13–35 However, during the mid-1800s, speaking in tongues was so commonplace in the LDS and RLDS churches that a person who had not spoken in tongues, or who had not […]
[…] in Joseph Smith’s cosmos. Campbell’s third function for myth is that it supports and sustains the social order (1988a, 31). Hutchinson mentions “Abraham’s curious racial ideology” (p. 38). An 1828 debate between Alexander Campbell, […]
[…] physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of disease. . . . The […]