[…] geographic center of a city that has become the theocratic headquarters of a worldwide church. Throughout the world, the Salt Lake Temple has come to symbolize the city, the state of Utah, and Mormonism. […]
[…] of a diverse population is, of course, a challenge facing virtually all religious groups in the Western world. However, in some ways the emphasis on marriage and the family heightens that challenge within the […]
Things happen. Early in the world you travel into them. One day You rise without prayer in a far camp and silently hurry away. Having slept under stars and still breathing the greyed fire, […]
I remember that day perfectly—every violet plum with its orange smudges, the rim of the huge blue canning kettle smeared with thick yellow slime and little tatters of purple peel. It was the day […]
[…] the often uncomfortable position of playing mediator or translator between Mor mons and the rest of the world. (Perhaps that is the mission President Nielsen had in mind.) As I socialize with non-Mormon friends […]
[…] assumptions. For example, in the process of totally rejecting creationism, mod ern evolutionary theory assumes an ontological world that rejects the following: essentialism (the idea that a specie has ontological status), nominalism (that the […]
[…] personal confirmation of its truthfulness. These were frightening and liberating standards for a pilgrimage. I let the world be my sanctuary and let my responses be my compass. I hoped I would find truth […]
Annette Hampshire’s Mormonism in Conflict: The Nauvoo Years is simultaneously refreshing and exasperating. To her credit, Hampshire strives for a degree of methodological and theoretical rigor that has been sadly absent in most Mormon […]
[…] briefly studied phonography (today we would say stenography), and for many years doggedly sought a revolution in English orthography. When time per mitted, he walked a half block from his office to ensure sobriety […]
[…] general authorities, as well as anyone who is struggling with homosexuality on a personal or family level. The book is divided into four major sections including (1) a foreword by Lowell Bennion and an editors’ […]