One Side by Himself is well written and shows careful research and documentation. The author, a descendant of Lewis Barney, emphasizes that his subject was a run-of-the-mill Mormon; in fact, he says, “Lewis Barney […]
Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 143–145 Sometimes, I seem to be the only person in the entire church who knows that it’s okay to believe in evolution and still be a faithful, believing Mormon.
[…] over post-retreat remembrances, I hear the hopeful voices of women who aren’t necessarily trying to change the world or the world of the church, but are trying very hard to find ways to live […]
[…] usher in the new millennium and dis abuse them of fundamentalist myths about the end of the world. Yet he continues to live in Colorado City, wearing the fundamentalist undergarment even in summer heat: […]
[…] place of refuge and divine protection for the Saints from the evils, dangers, and cares of the world.” It would moreover serve as “the edifice where through divine oracles, God would reveal his wisdom […]
[…] himself. Church is over and Nathan is ready to go home. He leaves the office, eager to search for his family in the halls. He wants to find them fast, get home, have dinner. […]
[…] that, contrary to previous stories, Mormon settlers in Cedar City bore responsibility for the massacre. (See http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/ news-releases-stories /150th-anniversary-of-mountain-meadows massacre continued [accessed June 29, 2008]). It was not perpetrated by John D. Lee and […]
[…] German militiamen who formed killing squads in Poland in Adolf Hitler’s “final solution” against European Jews during World War II. In age and marital status they resembled the Mormon militiamen at Mountain Meadows. After […]
As an evangelical Christian living in California, I had mixed feelings about the Christian community’s involvement in Proposition 8. I had just started attending a new church during election time. One Sunday, I was […]
In the backwash from the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, scandals at virtually all levels of government have plagued the American political landscape. Governors have been especially prominent in the media-intensive cavalcade of investigations, confessions, […]