[…] use and the role it plays in the ways Mormons accommodate the larger society. What has not been examined, however, are the ways mass media, such as movies, television, newspapers, etc., tend to describe Mormons.
[…] conference agenda turned out kind of thin. And when, in fact, the Regional Representative delayed the conference over half an hour, leaving more than two hundred assembled women to practice hymns and grudging patience […]
[…] a certain admiration for them in that they struggle through life, indeed finding some way to survive.[ 6] Because they are survivors, her characters are pitiable but not pitied. They are in troublesome circumstances—a […]
[…] discovering together, in discourse, new levels of truth (or at least agreement) that neither side suspected before.”[ 6] His is “a view of rhetoric as the whole art of discovering and sharing warrantable assertion.”[7] […]
[…] he continued. They might spot and stain the carpet. No heels on women’s shoes. No music or 3×5 note cards to remind us of our words and music. “Be sure to remember your white […]
Amulek asks us a rhetorical question, “Now, if a man murdereth, be hold will our law, which is just, take the life of his brother?”(Alma 34:11). Obviously the answer is no, and Amulek says as […]
[…] I hadn’t written down where it appeared, because that brief reading had a deep impact on me.[ 6] I have continued to think about that article and to ask whether Jesus was a feminist […]
[…] the Book of Mormon’s truth claims, its approach is nonviolent, presenting evidence and letting the evidence speak for itself—a technique that ultimately gets us no nearer the truth than the most exquisite theological argumentation, […]
[…] I said was strictly true. A dirty, nasty, filthy affair of his and Fanny Alger’s was talked over in which I strictly declared that I never deviated from the truth” (38). There is strong […]
[…] contemptible, like lying to hurt a friend or to win a contest or to get victims to buy into a fake real estate scheme. At the extremes, we have little trouble judging: if I […]