[…] December 1917: “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the most democratic institution in the world” (100). Although some subsequently have taken the position that he did not mean what he said […]
My first inklings of the possibilities of God’s grace in my life came through two personal experiences. The first occurred during a family Christmas dinner. My youngest sister had brought her boyfriend. They were […]
[…] which demonstrates the unique ness of the Mormon understanding of God’s relation to space-time and the temporal world”(p. 331). God is omni temporal, not limited by our own temporal dimensions, not in our measured […]
[…] lethal. The penultimate line, the cliche “be good to your kids, there’s nothing like ’em in the world, believe me” has never sounded so sinister. The middle playlet, A Gaggle of Saints, involves John […]
[…] ear. To me, the movie screen, the city lights, and the transistor were parts of the same world—distant, mysterious, exciting. I would listen to the music and make up movies in my head about […]
“John Durham Peters may well be the most original thinker in the broad field of communication and media studies in the United States.” So claims Michael Schudson, professor of communication at the University of […]
[…] while Mormons believe the obvious other—that they are three beings, and that Joseph Smith has corrected the world on that point. The underlying tone was: “Silly them.” Scriptures that supported the Mormon view were […]
[…] as I developed this essay—first, that of a dialectical assertion with its thesis, antithesis, and subsequent synthesis. The second analogy, more visual, is of a triptych, with two opposing side panels and finally a […]
I am a lover of legends, a spinner of tales. Pepper your preaching with anecdotes if you want my attention. Punctuate your sermons with parables, your homilies with flesh and blood, your lessons with people […]
[…] after back surgery and a life of addiction. He was forty-nine. His death was hard enough, but the ensuing drama with my mother and sister—the last of my immediate family—widened the rift between us […]