Dialogue 49.3 (Fall 2016): 75–88 Probably the most destabilizing piece of historical information most Mormons come across is Joseph Smith’s polygamy.
[…] to the mother. Realistically the family is the only bulwark for the maintenance of tradition in a world so susceptible to change. The parent who can separate the healthy from the diseased aspects of […]
[…] breadlines. I am over thirty and I can recall with little effort the effects of the second World War—rationing of food and gasoline, tin can drives and the gathering of milk pods from fields around […]
[…] of the state. This corresponds to the geographic information found on the Board mailing lists.[3] For a world-wide Church, such uniformity on the part of its female Boards may appear paradoxical. Responsiveness to the […]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sees both God and man in a temporal, that i§^ historical,’ context, but it has developed no authoritative, systematic statement of the philosophical implications of […]
[…] list of recent works will notice that a high proportion of the reviewed literature concerns the ” World Church.” From India to England, Tin Can Island to Finland, South Africa to Central America the […]
[…] his body again and again that night, but there wasn’t enough soap and hot water in the world to make him happy. The next morning he showered again, turned the shower on full-force cold […]
[…] restrained than non-Mormons. And Negative Accompaniments are Greater Mormon sex norms are among the strictest in the world, sometimes even placing unchastity next to murder. Not unexpectedly, then, the Intermountain respondents who had engaged […]
[…] voluntary movement,” groups that “institutionalized the idea that women’s pious influence . . . could reform the world.”[2] Since these women were already mobilized on behalf of the poor, the drunk, the fallen, the […]
[…] backward over the surface flowing just a few feet below, my mind would flow to a safe world inside me. There was the vacant lot across from Grandma Hartvigsen’s that grew pepper weeds three […]