[…] subscribers. The results were published in its spring 1987 issue under the title, “The Unfettered Faithful,” intended to evoke an image of religiously committed readers who felt free to explore the issues and frontiers […]
[…] a focus on the question of using gender-inclusive language in the simplified version to discover something that should have been obvious to me from the beginning: females scarcely figure or matter in our sacred books.
[…] count heroic martyrs, epic treks, and seemingly supernatural manifestations. Deep in the Mormon psyche is an attraction to prophetic posturing and swagger. In particular, Joseph Smith, Jr., and Brigham Young are icons who have […]
[…] help me God the are, as the 1st presy of the church. . . . ou cant call a Prophet you cant take El Rigfdon] or Amas Lyman they must be ordd by the […]
[…] the office of a very angry stake president. It was a lesson he hadn’t forgotten. “I could call Damon to the bishopric.” He paused, absently fishing broken animal crackers from the watch pocket in […]
[…] come anti-enemy instead of pro-kingdom of God; we train a man in the art of war and call him a patriot, thus, in the manner of Satan’s counterfeit of true patriotism, perverting the Savior’s […]
[…] this preoccupation with structural collapse legitimizes a critical consideration of the way that language functions in the book, rendering the Book of Mormon particularly well-suited to a reading that employs the techniques of post-structural criticism.
During the early 1840S, founding Mormon prophet Joseph Smith introduced members of his young church to the ordinances of baptism for the dead (1840), eternal marriage (1841), and eternal proxy marriage (1842). These ordinances, […]
[…] player in that process, still bears a colonization imprint in many ways. The colonizing days are over now, and the Church is part of a major political presence in the world, no longer the […]
[…] me glowing reports from New York, at daytime rates. Then one day I got a friendly, unofficial call from Salt Lake. “Say, Sam, are you trying to put on a play about polygamy on […]