[…] a temple recommend. The First Presidency, after denying my request, answered as follows: Were everyone in the world members of the Church, the tragic problems referred to .. . could of course be handled […]
[…] According to legend, this ram was also created during the twilights of creation and lingered in the world ever since, waiting for his turn until he was finally caught in the brush behind Abraham. […]
[…] a feeling not just of belonging to the Church, but also of belonging in society, in this world, as a human being relating to other humans. I know now that I am a Mormon: it […]
Dialogue 23.1 (Spring 1990): 39–55 Few Brazilian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daySaints will forget 1978, the year when two events significantly changed the Church in this South American country.
Five years ago I would never have imagined that I would marry outside of the Church, let alone that I would discuss the experience in public. The number of people who will read this does […]
[…] on a man. The stigma of divorce is less than it used to be, but in a world where women rarely make enough to live comfortably on their own, single mothers are often seen […]
[…] History, B. H. Robert’s Studies of the Book of Mormon, and Jerald and Sandra Tanner’s The Changing World of Mormonism, I can only wonder why Hutchinson’s work disturbed me so. I believe it is […]
[…] convene a Middle East peace conference, and the suffering of the Kurdish and Shiite refugees, whom the world seemed to forget until it was too late. These disappointments are seen as unfortunate elements of […]
[…] the pogroms in Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the Holocaust of World War II, Jewish demo graphic projections are bleak. A scholar has called it the “silent holocaust” […]
Dialogue 25.2 (Fall 1992): 75–96 The personal essay, unlike personal journals, letters, and oral histories, is not an artless form. It transforms the raw material of personal experience in the double crucible of carefully […]