Pioneer Mother
November 11, 2022[…] today Romania, my father’s ancestors heard of a man named Joseph Smith and his vision of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. They left Europe and traveled with other devout Saints to […]
[…] today Romania, my father’s ancestors heard of a man named Joseph Smith and his vision of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. They left Europe and traveled with other devout Saints to […]
[…] strict definition of “man” or “woman” does not simply exclude trans folks but also any body not fulfilling its biological utility. After all, biological potential and utility is the basis of a biological sex assignment
[…] early 1830s in response to those revelations. “Each church believes it has the correct map of the world,” Patterson observes (4). The Community of Christ owns the most land, including the site of its […]
[…] sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. I want to focus on one word in particular: advocate. The original Greek word in this […]
[…] Bagley is a historian who has written and edited more than a dozen books on Mormon ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) history and the American West. His best known work […]
[…] the Latter-day Saint church aims to be—that stone cut out of the mountain that fills the whole world, not just the Intermountain American West. More importantly, Parshall’s contextual essays also show real people interacting […]
[…] graduate work in intellectual history (Cornell) and comparative literature (UNC Chapel Hill). In 2019 he retired from the Jabez A. Bostwick Chair at the University of Richmond to be Neal A. Maxwell Senior Research […]
[…] talks or lessons, they just leak out of me in my day to day responses to the world.”[2] In short, James Goldberg is a mystic—a mystic for Mormons. I don’t mean that what he has […]
[…] Hiram Woolley, who uses faith-powered folk magic to face down old evil within a new and fast-changing world. There is a vibrant tradition in Mormon literature of searching for the Mormon Corridor’s soul through […]
[…] through his concentration on politics. The Mormon commonwealth served as both a self-contained refuge from the outside world and the locus for a society that would establish the Kingdom of God on earth. In […]