[…] And now I must talk about the worst times. This time while I’ve been waiting for a call has been a very bad time for me. I’ve waited patiently for my bishop to nominate […]
Having sold out its two cloth printings, Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-sex Orientation is now available in paperback. First published in 1991 by Signature Books and edited by Ron Schow, Wayne Schow, and Marybeth Raynes, […]
[…] the church in Japan not also making comparable progress, but in fact is stagnant?” For some years now such a question has arisen among LDS members in the U.S., and particularly among church leaders. […]
[…] nature of the Christian message that naturally resulted in the full-blown retellings of the story that we call Gospels. We will examine first the three Gospels that were composed from common sources and that […]
<i>Dialogue 31.4 (Winter 1998): 31–42</i><br>A series of questions began to occur to me: If I hate my mother, can I love the Heavenly Mother? If I hate my mother, can I love myself? If […]
[…] Jewish acceptance of Jesus as the Messiah, became bitterly disillusioned when they failed to respond to his call to baptism. He characterized the Jews as anti-Christ, worse than devils, and advocated their ex pulsion […]
[…] of Jerusalem waving palm fronds as Christ rode past them on a donkey, in that entrance we call triumphant, that spirited beginning of His atonement. “Save now,” Elaine said again. “Just think of that, […]
[…] establishment of the official record of the revelations authorizing the foundations of the faith (1839- 41), not from on high, but from the scullery, as it were—a documentary account of insider perceptions of the […]
[…] to serve as missionaries, or “certify” them as such, prior to 1898. The church did, however, “ call” women to do other types of “mission work.” Brigham Young officially appointed Louisa Greene Richards to the […]
[…] find silence.” B. Differential Values for Music Thus, comparative trends may be observed as between what I call “organizational sanctity” and the use of music. By “organizational sanctity” I refer to the degree of […]