[…] of fact, no one from within the Mormon community or without can presume to fathom the peculiar world view of Mormonism without taking into account the literalism of its premises, and I shall attempt […]
[…] spiritual kingdom of God on earth. The Church leaders asked the members to separate themselves from the world and “to be self-sustaining; to produce all that is possible .. . at home.”[4] The leaders […]
[…] builds bombs, but almost everyone does. Our new ward chapel may be the only church in the world from which members can see five nuclear reactors and two nuclear fuel fabrication plants. No one […]
[…] the Three Nephites and the trail of wonders they left behind them as they travelled through the world. On one occasion a man he knew had been stranded in the mountains by a snow […]
[…] treatment — appealing to Latter day Saints and informative to readers of diverse viewpoints. Bushman packages the world of Mormon beginnings in six chapters. Adding his own expertise to the previous work of Richard […]
[…] Evangelists, that men had not the gift of the Holy Ghost, as in former days; or the world would be guided into truth, and know of things to come. We believed in the gift […]
[…] talked, awkwardly. Not much to talk about either, I realized, when you’ve lost touch with the outside world. Even knowing that Christmas is a few days away doesn’t make life happier in a nursing […]
[…] that frustrating, joyous, and selfish time known as puberty. I was so wrapped up in my own world of friends, school and fun (mostly fun) that Mary Ann slipped to the back of my […]
[…] promised. As soon as this lie was over, we’d start again. Never, ever, would there be a breaking of this promise. And that’s when the leaves started to fall. While I sat in the […]
[…] was groundbreaking in LDS print media. He talks about how he believed and presented publicly theories on the cause and cure of homoseuxaity, following Freudian psychology in 1970. “16 years later, “he states, “I […]