[…] delightsome people” (28). In further pursuit of this goal of Mormon eugenics, Young advised his followers “to buy up Lamanite children as fast as they could, educate them and teach them the gospel so […]
[…] Justice Minis tries for the Community of Christ, “is committed to the nonviolent pursuit of justice” ( 6). An even greater diversity of views within the Community of Christ is represented in the first […]
[…] This declaration, abutted against that line from the Mormon hymn, “Sacrifice brings forth the blessings of Heaven”[ 3] causes me to view some (by no means all) war as sacrificial and, as that word’s […]
[…] Lamanites. It is in these passages that something resembling a Book of Mormon just war theory emerges.[ 6] Both from his general tone and his more explicit comments, it is clear that Mormon considers […]
[…] accounts of most value to each reader. I remember Douglas P. Bush’s account of his patriarchal blessing—not for its actual words, but for what the patriarch years later told him he had seen in […]
[…] his elegiac “Goodbye to Poplarhaven.”[5] Some future historian may describe it as “the world we have lost.”[ 6] As it happened, it was into this fading world that Jan Shipps found herself transported in […]
This morning I light red candles and set them on the sill, daring the breeze through an open window to tease the flames.
[…] boards the boat of the male disciples (57). This image of Jesus as a “women’s man” is counter to the LDS culture which encourages male bonding to such a degree that women’s viewpoints often […]
D. Jeff Burton, Tolerance for “Cultural Mormons” Gerry L. Ensley, Joseph, Peepstones, and Pirates Dan Vogel, Serving Two Masters Gary James Bergera, Civility, Compassion, Honesty Richard L. Bushman, Fair-Minded People Sarah Barringer Gordon, Jana […]
[…] at the same time, Jeff maintains that these people are genuine, and the Marxist in me doesn’t buy it. The problem is that, when you get down to brass tacks, the Lowerys are completely […]