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Mormon Europeans or European Mormons? An “Afro-European” View on Religious Colonization

March 22, 2018

Mormon history is part of the colonization history of the American West; and the LDS Church, as a major 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 colonized, but rather the colonizer. In this article, I argue that the Utah-based modern Church has replicated the same colonization process on its membership abroad to which it was once subjected.

A Lament

March 21, 2018

[…] feel respected at Church. Decision-making, team-building, raises, promotions, letters of commendation, and hearty praise from co-workers all feed our need to develop our talents, to make a difference, and to be recognized for our […]

Like the Lilies of the Field

March 21, 2018

[…] the car and instead of going right into dinner, he says, “I’ve got to water the cow, feed the cow, check the horse.” All true. But I also know from long experience that, if […]

The Blessing

March 20, 2018

[…] I loved to go out on the hospital grounds and sit in the sunshine. I liked to feed the squirrels. They’d come down from the trees and sit beside me on the bench. They […]

Roundtable on Massacre at Mountain Meadows

March 19, 2018

[…] with the title “Zion’s Avengers.” Isaac Haight, one of the leading perpetrators, declared, “I am prepared to feed the enemy the bread he fed to me and mine” (131).  To be sure, Mormons were […]

Reaping Where We Have Not Sown

March 18, 2018

Moments after hearing the bishop’s voice ask if I could speak on the importance of developing talents, another voice spoke the phrase “you reap where you do not sow” into my awareness. As we all know, these words come from the parable of the talents. The phrase is part of the address of the last slave to give account of his dealings to his master. He says: “Master, I knew you were a harsh man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed. So I was afraid and I went and hid your talent in the ground.

Crawling Out of the Primordial Soup: A Step toward the Emergence of an LDS Theology Compatible with Organic Evolution

March 17, 2018

Dialogue 43.1 (Spring 2010): 1–36
And in fact, what might it mean that God “used” evolution tocreate life’s diversity? Was this a choice for God among other al-ternatives? Do Wildman’s pessimistic conclusions hold for Mor-monism? Does evolution imply a noninterventionist Deity? Arethere more optimistic views possible, some of which may actuallysuggest that evolution enhances and expands our view of God?

Characters to Care About | Jonathan Langford, No Going Back

March 16, 2018

Google “gay” and “Mormon” these days, and you’ll be flung— headfirst—into a veritable deluge of vitriol and sanctimony. Of course, it didn’t start with California’s Proposition 8. No, that river’s path pushes back, through the…