[…] a pattern of oppression. Humility breaks a pattern of arrogance and ignorant pride. The genealogy of the world is an ugly pattern in which hate begets hate, war begets war, meanness begets meanness, oppression […]
When are the writings and Sermons of Church Leaders entitled to the claim of being scripture? I assume the scripture behind this question is the declaration of the Lord in a revelation given through […]
Old Bishop Leonard used to insist that the Spirit World was right here on earth and the dead were never far from home. He was not really the bishop anymore, but the title was […]
[…] for five straight nights, frenching until our tongues were raw. They wouldn’t have admitted it for the world, but they wanted it. It might have been my salvation, but I couldn’t take the hint […]
[…] because, he said, “it destroys the God given power to bring forth sons and daughters into this world.”[20] Undoubtedly the most difficult public problem was the enforcement of state and nationwide Prohibition against those […]
[…] fulfill what its founders believed to be its greatest purpose: propagating this message to the literate, thinking world. The only true dialogue possible be tween Mormon and non-Mormon was, and continues to be, limited […]
[…] angrily as a visiting dignitary announces that if he had a choice of any ward in the world to live in, he would choose Wilshire Ward. It seems to us that he does have […]
[…] tool of sexist church leaders. It was too much. I felt a fierce desire to show the world Mormon women as I know them: liberal, conservative, confident, fearful, happy, depressed, sometimes all of the […]
[…] floor and my posters of Bobby Sherman and David Cassidy on the walls, I created my own world. With a librarian as a father, I had access to shelves of books with no danger […]
[…] creeds of the fathers, who have inherited lies, upon the hearts of the children, and filled the world with confusion” (D&C 123:7). Nothing has more literally ful filled that description than the false Christian […]