Eternal Misfit
March 16, 2018[…] I take it that men and women will, in these kingdoms, be just what the so-called Christian world expects us all to be—neither man nor woman, merely immortal beings having received the resurrection Joseph […]
[…] I take it that men and women will, in these kingdoms, be just what the so-called Christian world expects us all to be—neither man nor woman, merely immortal beings having received the resurrection Joseph […]
[…] love strangers. After a year, I felt that I’d come to understand how Louisiana Protestants saw the world (the Cajun Catholics rarely had anything to do with us). Understanding the worldview of those Christians […]
[…] the theologs, priesthood for the priestly, original sin for the sinners, redemption for the regenerate. The Roman world in which Christianity was born was a marvelous pageant of gods, saviors, temples, priests, prophets, messiahs, […]
[…] (28-29), but rather polygyny is a practiced form of marriage in the majority of cultures around the world and is conducive both to stability in the social order and democracy. In other words, polygyny […]
[…] optimistic about the future of the Church in Europe. Old traditions and restrictions on new religions are breaking down. The religious market is stirring, and the LDS brand, with its innovative combination of the […]
[…] lack of confidence. Nor was there a lack of confidence in the missionaries who carried the good news of the Restoration to all nations. One missionary, lecturing in Boston’s Boylston Hall, was described as […]
[…] for the Arab nations (including Palestine) in return for Arab sup port against the Ottoman Turks during World War I.[2] The real issue separating the Arabs and the Israelis, is largely a function of […]
[…] Roberts, A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1930), VI, pp. 377-388. [4] Douglas Dexter Alder, “The German Speaking Migration to Utah, 1850-1950″(Masters […]
[…] more: * “ineffability/’ or extreme difficulty to find words apt to convey the NDE; * “hearing the news,” hearing doctors pronouncing the experiencer “dead”; * initial “feelings of peace and quiet”; * then a […]
[…] a contemporary American poet. The poem de tails the encounter of a late twentieth-century consciousness with a world other than this one. Merrill’s sensibility as a poet is pronouncedly lyrical: most of his poems […]