[…] 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 […]
[…] And here again came a surge of assurance of method mixed with all the madness in the world. Just looking at the metal letters with the backdrop of stars, I felt like a wayward […]
[…] Lake City and Sanpete County. And in San Francisco, Bangkok Florence Bombay Kiev and Chad, Nigeria. The world would simply go from boom to fire to ash. Evacuation? Shelters? No way. No hole big […]
[…] to safeguard the church and this coun cil, and to the maintenance of their dignity in the world, such ordinations were de pendent upon joint action, first, on the presentation by the First Presidency […]
By adopting the above-cited definition of mysticism, the compilers of the “Topical Guide” (LDS Edition 1979) distance Mormonism from a religious heritage which is perhaps as old as any other of record. The most […]
[…] up for the Word of Wisdom. He stoutly maintained—puffing vigorously at his pipe all the while—that the world would be a better place if tobacco and alcohol had never been discovered. These views did […]
[…] they usually only talked on holidays, but Leanne had an announcement to make. “I’ve joined the New World Church. And I want you to learn about it, too.” They had been best friends since […]
Editing William Clayton, James B. Allen A Response: The Politics of Mormon History, George D. Smith A Reply, James B. Allen A Rejoinder, George D. Smith