[…] homosexuality, has “enormous implications for our perception of sin and responsibility. No one should ignore the dilemma.”[ 3] Stout challenged the widely accepted LDS assumption that homosexuals have chosen their lifestyle and knowingly entered […]
[…] We need something in this world that isn’t trying to teach us lessons or get us to buy a product, that isn’t self-helping us to death. All writing, fiction included, is, of course, loaded […]
[…] sin and that Christ stood in as a substitute for us to satisfy this demand of suffering.[ 6] Because Mormons usually explain the atonement in the same language as the penal-substitution theory, I will […]
Over the course of a lifetime, I have had occasion to give thought to the question of why I continue to be an active, committed member of the Church of Jesus Christ of […]
[…] is why the book costs $35: I am not the target audience. Generally, the people who will buy this book are “average” Dialogue readers—those who, like me, remember Gene with fondness, but unlike me are […]
[…] and a devoted helpmeet to her husband; she accepts her role as “the example” in the stake over which her husband presides. Awaiting Paul’s return, Robert and Alice try to go about life as […]
The American-born Allan West has become widely respected for his pursuit of a traditional form in Japan. Raised in Washington, D.C., Allan served in the Okayama Japan mission during the early 1980s. In 1987, […]
[…] around me.” When he showed an interest in painting upon completing high school, his mother—a baker—traded bread for private art lessons from a local portrait painter, Martha Lower, to whom he acknowledges a great […]
[…] loved Florence. She realized this the day Florence took the soeurs to the coast so they could buy a bucketful of mussels, which they soaked in white wine without telling Soeur Paxton, who would […]
[…] Smith, Smith’s deceased brothers (Hyrum, Don Carlos, and Samuel), and current Mormon leaders. He also composed pseudonyms for the twelve apostles, the group which assumed the leadership of the Mormon Church following Joseph Smith’s […]