Kristine: As you well know, Mormons are always interested in famous Mormons’ relationship to the Church. From what I’ve read, it seems that you like the Church, like Mormons, but never were really a […]
[…] index, this valuable book provides narrative history, data compilations, and unexploited documents shedding light on one of the most unusual, controversial organizations of antebellum American military his tory, the short-lived Nauvoo Legion of Hancock […]
In northern Europe, where our celebration of the Christmas season has its roots, the winter nights are long, dark, and foreboding and, at least in myth, teeming with unwelcome mysteries. It was against this […]
[…] detailed book, consisting of an extensive examination of a wide variety of topics in Mormon theology from the time of scripture to the present. Harrell announces his methodology in the first chapter: “Theology: A […]
During the cold war years after World War II, Mormons, including some Church leaders, increasingly infused national concerns about Communism with strong moral and religious overtones. J. Reuben Clark Jr.(1871–1961), first counselor in the […]
[…] Will give away my sins or keep them close to know you; Will seek you in the best and brokenest of books; Will cling hard, let loose, bring forth flesh and fruit, if […]
[…] Bender’s lips are moving. It is an arbitrary distinction. Either all things fail in a poststructural interpretive world, or we are not in a poststructural world. Bender can’t have it both ways. The Book […]
[…] remains essential in daily life. Miller’s figuring of grace as that which is unconditionally given in a quotidian world teeming with messy and diverse objects is a breath of fresh air on the topic. There […]
God once asked a murderer about the location of his victim. The murderer evaded the question by posing another: “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Someone turning to the Book of Mormon to defend their church’s traditional teachings on sexuality would likely consult the sermon given by the Nephite prophet Jacob in the second chapter of his eponymous book. […]