I believe the history of the Bremen Wards to be a good example of LDS history in Germany. The first branch was founded in January 1882 with seven members, and by the year 2000 […]
Brady Udall has given the same sort of message to readers of his fiction. In an interview with the journal Irreantum, Udall said, “I don’t want to teach readers a lesson of any kind. […]
[…] I’m a feminist. I’m a Mormon, aren’t I?” Judy’s point of view made perfect sense to me. Over the years the word “feminist” has become weighted with political, theological, and emotional baggage—another “f” word […]
[…] in the middle of the circle and then released into the air with a shout of “1-2- 3 Baptize!” or “1-2-3 Convert!” I would walk out of the chapel with my feet drag ging. […]
[…] of the family came running, fully intending to put them back in, but I rescued enough to buy us all hamburgers. As we left, I felt betrayed by that machine. It had made a […]
[…] of power: exploitative, “the simplest and, humanly speaking, most destructive kind of power”; manipulative, which is “power over another person”; competitive, “power against another”; nutrient, “power for the other”; and integrative, “power with another […]
Dialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128 DID JOSEPH SMITH WRITE the Book of Mormon? To this over-familiar question the orthodox Latter-day Saint answer is a resounding “No” because the official belief is that a series of […]
[…] official permission. He could exchange his money for any currency without any restriction or limit. He could buy goods from any other country in the world on the same terms he bought goods at […]
[…] was frightened. “Yes,” he admitted, “and I have only been this scared once before in my life—June 6, 1944.” D-Day in Eu rope. If I hadn’t known it before, our conversation confirmed that, like […]
[…] his tongue. The city of Hiroshima below was awake and vibrantly alive now, ringed by its verdant, ever-protective mountains, its gleaming and sinuous rivers, a bright and beckoning blue. The date was August 6, 1945.