[…] vision, our dreams of a more inclusive community, of better ways of being together in this amorphous world of Mormonism. I have spent considerable time recently thumbing through the issues we tried so carefully […]
[…] almost another year, Dr. Sowby was attentive and protective toward Sam. He called Kören at home with news of research in Baltimore or a magazine article that promised a raised life expectancy of some […]
[…] so. But Amulek concludes, “The law requireth the life of him who hath murdereth therefore there can be nothing short of an in finite atonement which will suffice for the sins of the world“(Alma 34:12).
Dialogue 33.4 (Winter 2001):127–173 Upon an initial and cursory reading, the book appears to be a simple morality play. A zealous purveyor of an unusual gustatory selection hawks his wares to an Everyman, whose […]
On the Sunday afternoon following the Crucifixion, two of Christ’s disciples made their way to a place called Emmaus, a small town seven or eight miles from Jerusalem. This is a journey that began […]
[…] framed by an ethical attitude as far as freedom and constraint are concerned. Even in the broad world of mainstream academic theology, one sometimes hears col leagues speak negatively of the way “the academy” […]
[…] an authoritarian organization like the church and a democratic (even anarchic) one like science. In the computer world (my other life), the difference and struggle are portrayed as “the Cathedral and the Bazaar,” and […]
[…] average of 250 missionaries— 35 of us women—we were probably one of the largest missions in the world in 1977 and where baptisms among the Catholic French-speaking people were rare. For the majority of […]
[…] horse and buggy to get to town. They had kerosene lanterns for light in the evening. The world had changed so drastically since then. It certainly was n’t all good, but it was definitely […]
[…] of freedom and authority, certainty and questing, or the need for a God who both transcends the world and connects intimately to it. And so on. Indeed, the conflicts of the new Mormon historians […]