[…] Reading The issue of religious plurality is addressed in Mormonism through the doctrine of baptism for the dead.[ 6] To reiterate the familiar explanation: A person has to be baptized to be saved. God wants […]
[…] the gospel, and they will go forth and build the New Jerusalem, and we shall help them.”[ 6] These kinds of interpretations were commonly espoused as recently as twenty years ago, when Placement seemed […]
Halfway between here and Oregon, the Lighthouse Bookstore opens along some residential street we browse unwittingly when reading after dark, where the words and road signs blur and the sky clouds up and thunders.
[…] reason and revelation are intended to mark a division between two modes of learning. The position is for the most part uniform: one can learn things by reason or by revelation, but when the […]
[…] examines the complicated life of the missionary in Bolivia. The stories in themselves are a reason to buy the book. The myths and stories differ from one another, yet in the telling become contoured […]
[…] the Clayton journals simply because the major portion of this particular volume, from 10 December 1845 to 6 January 1846, is in Clayton’s handwriting. Anyone who has studied the keeping of journals in church […]
[…] two to three cups a day, “are less likely to commit suicide than those who do not.”[ 6] Grandmother Dubois’s life was full of terrible events. I am certain that her morning cup of […]
[…] members, especially general authorities. Nevertheless, the text reveals a number of deficiencies in Reynolds’s understanding. She glosses over the differences within what she calls “traditional Christianity,” by attributing to all non-Mormon Christians doc trines […]
[…] (D&C 88:63, 67). My eighty-five-year-old mother-in-law lives with us now. I care for her, watch over her, buy the things she enjoys, see that her meals are on time, and in the late afternoon […]
Dialogue 30. 3 (Fall 1999):90–103 To average LDS church members in 1909, Roberts’s New Witnesses for God substantiated their beliefs and further embellished his stature for them as a historian and defender of the […]