Plucked from the Ashes
April 11, 2018[…] a great hatred for these outsiders and their church. After getting married and entering the white man’s world to earn a living, my wife, Theresa, and I had occasional visits from the Mormons. They […]
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Speaking for Themselves: LDS Ethnic Groups Oral History Project
April 11, 2018[…] Pixton, who is in the U.S. Navy, joined the Church in Italy and has lived throughout the world. Elijah Royster has lived only in Hawaii as a Latter-day Saint but previously traveled in the […]
The Identity of Jacob’s Opponent: Wrestling with Ambiguity in Genesis 32:32
April 11, 2018Who is the “man” Jacob wrestles at the ford of the Jabbok? Critical exegesis has traditionally identified him as an angel, with reliance upon ample evidence in the text: he appears out of nowhere […]
Dancing Through the Doctrine: Observations on Religion and Feminism
April 7, 2018[…] just reformative or cosmetic changes, are going to be necessary to alter women’s oppressed situation in our world. I am generally more sympathetic to revisioning and rethinking than I am to reform, because our […]
Psychology as Foil to Religion: A Reformulation of Dualism
April 3, 2018[…] this gospel (where the very hairs of our heads are numbered) versus the nomothetic nature of the world? It appears so huge, and we appear so tiny in it. It reminds me of a […]
The Search for Truth and Meaning in Mormon History
March 28, 2018[…] For our pioneer ancestors, worship was not a running away or withdrawal from the battles of the world; neither was it an ostrich-like refusal to look problems in the face. They could not, even […]
Grandpa and the Petrified Oysters
March 27, 2018[…] foot drop squarely on what she considered his other great failing. Grandpa drank. While to the larger world, moderate consumption of alcohol was hardly a crime, to my grandmother the mere uncorking of a […]
How My Mission Saved My Membership
March 26, 2018[…] idea out of my head. It seemed I had a choice between two good causes: serving the world as a Peace Corps volunteer or serving the world as a Mormon missionary. I couldn’t lose, […]
How Many Members Are There Really? Two Censuses and the Meaning of LDS Membership in Chile and Mexico
March 22, 2018[…] as relatively similar to the LDS Church both in size and in rates of growth around the world.[6] For 2000 the Adventists claimed a membership of 524,207 in Mexico.[7] The Mexican census reported 488,945 […]
Carterville
March 22, 2018[…] got to choose a hundred dollars worth of fishing equipment from Carlson’s as a prize. The Second World War was over, but equipment was still hard to get. I fished with a metal telescope […]