[…] being, a certain kind of time and space, which is not easy to come by in a world that doesn’t suffer from an excess of the sacred. One reason I got interested in free […]
[…] commentary posted online by readers of a balanced and thoughtful report by Carrie Moore of the Deseret News concerning the forthcoming volume (“Book Confronts LDS Tragedy,” July 19, 2008). Since the volume had not yet […]
[…] a great pioneer or something,” Tregan said. “My dad said with all these Mormon fundamentalists in the news and that one guy being put on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, the city didn’t want […]
[…] front of me. Something cosmological and universal and foundational was quivering and trembling to the point of breaking—but I didn’t ask the Question, the question that so often comes to the believer in the […]
[…] its own self-interest by expanding its membership rolls much like a business enterprise attempts to increase market share and promote its own image. The Church’s proselytizing effort and the omnipresent missionary focus within LDS […]
[…] than can be given here. Suffice it to say that the end of modernity should be good news for Mormons. If we are true to practice, if, Zen-like, we keep trying to reconcile the […]
[…] to Mormon devotional literature by Kofford Books’ Contemporary Studies in Scripture series. Michael Austin. Re-reading Job: Understanding the Ancient World’s Greatest Poem. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2014. 174 pp. Paperback: $20.95. ISBN: 9781589586673.
[…] fruit they bear—which they could not bear alone.”[38] In this regard, the late Eugene England, professor of English at Brigham Young University, taught, “Tragedy does not have to do with presence or lack of […]
[…] a Muslim family; she was baptised on May 5, 1961.[52] Moreover, in 1962, the local newspaper Torres News reported that subsequent Mormon missionaries were received with traditional dances before they began to proselyte.[53] Previous […]
[…] shift in being that ruptures—and in the process demands revision of—Self-, world-, and/or Other-consciousness. Seeking to share her friend’s burden by inviting readers to experience and think deeply about a moment of loss […]