Becoming Mormon: The Elkton Branch, 1976-81
April 12, 2018[…] help us at that time, but we didn’t have everything we needed. We did can some and buy bulk goods at sales, but a whole year’s supply of everything was too much for me […]
[…] help us at that time, but we didn’t have everything we needed. We did can some and buy bulk goods at sales, but a whole year’s supply of everything was too much for me […]
This anthology is designed for people with a professional interest in Mormon historiography as well as for the much larger number of men and women who have been intrigued or alarmed by the rhetoric […]
[…] or half-myths sometimes perpetuated in Sunday school (and other) classes, builds faith rather than weakens it” (p. 6) is especially germane to present debates over the faithfulness of Mormon history that strays from the […]
[…] would be $156,000!” “Windows of Heaven!” I declared to myself. Why, with my good works, I could buy a house on the hill and drive a German car. I could prosper in the land […]
[…] own limited approaches to life and communication. Fortunately, these people all chose to seek help rather than buy into the myth. My own personal experience also refutes this myth. I have been in therapy […]
[…] 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 […]