[…] and manipulate the flock” (Enroth, 29). It occurs when the “needs” of the organization are given precedence over the needs of its members (Johnson, 32). Since the concept of spiritual abuse is still relatively […]
[…] their suspicions. One of them called me last week.” Outside the car window, the coliseum lights glared over the playing field. “It seems the women don’t have any jobs that the neighbors can see. […]
[…] line. Her neediness brushes my hem, But virtue does not leave. Theresa lays her groceries upon the counter. As the lepress presses in upon her For a touch (that is what she wants— She […]
[…] it is. A real pattern of exploitation dialectically produces its own symbolic mirror image within folk culture.[ 6] This quotation is from a fascinating analysis which moves from Europe to Southeast Asia, noting the […]
[…] need a workable definition of religious dissent in order to help make way for more serious debate over its legitimacy within the gospel process. Sincere and successfully waged dissent has long been an illegitimate […]
[…] contentions” (48:20). Jesus warns against the outbreak of such contention—or “conflict”—as a result of doctrinal disputes ( 3 Ne. 11:28-30). Doctrinal disputes should not lead to violence or divisions in the church. The point […]
[…] dislocates Jacob’s hip at a touch; and Jacob himself, at the end of the episode, identifies his opponent as divine: “I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved” (Gen. 32:30).
[…] him to be a wise advisor, so they asked for his opinion. Did he think they should buy a certain piece of property? Should they import a bull this year? Should their daughter accept […]
[…] writing: first, an emboldened treatment of a broadened subject matter, going far beyond, in time, the warmed- over servings of the pioneer past and, in space, beyond the confines of the Wasatch, the newer […]
Dialogue 26.2 (Summer 1993): 139–153 A study done to see how many polygamous wives there were at the peak of polygamy in the church.