[…] Journal of Mormon Thought, and miscellaneous articles in Sunstone magazine. He recently completed an 11-year stint as news editor for Sunstone and lives with his family in Oxford, Ohio. David J. Howlett is a […]
[…] such abject suffering and unchecked destruction had only existed in the abstract—a brief image on the evening news. My parents had shielded me, I knew, and now I wanted to do something about all this […]
[…] 2020). [5] Jana Riess, “New LDS Handbook Softens Stance on Sexuality, Doubles Down on Transgender Rules,” Religion News Service, Feb. 19, 2020. [6] “Transgender Individuals,” General Handbook of Instructions, 2020. [7] J. Sumerau and […]
[…] “notice of several months” for the event.[159] The village newspaper maintained its general policy of avoiding local news (except paid advertisements), but Palmyra’s anticipation of this camp-meeting led to the front-page story on Wednesday, […]
The Jews have a term, “Tikkun olam,” which means “repairing the world.” It is both a statement of belief and a commitment to action by individual Jews to heal, repair, and transform the world. […]
[…] ac curate, however, to suggest that the Gentile aim was full participation, rather than dominance, in local politics. In this respect it is significant to note that the Liberal party, representing the Gentile minority, […]
[…] There are at least two good interpretive reasons to do so. First, it is very easy to read Widtsoe’s language as reflecting a thoroughly institutionalized kind of rural sentimentality rather than any actual prophetic […]
[…] be a misspelling, or a phonetic spelling. In any case, the word was not contraries, and I read it as contrarieties. Which doesn’t have as nice a ring and rhythm as contraries. But so […]
[…] The many details—a stroke here, a stroke there—come for a moment into perfect focus, and one can read at last the word that has been from the beginning.Our essential matter enables us to worship […]
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