[…] identify, describe, and analyze the relationship between the “organizational characteristics of fundamentalist movements … and their changing world views, ideologies, and programs” (3). Three earlier volumes in the series set out to describe and […]
[…] “Okay. But just for a minute. Jared, why do you say it’s wrong?” “Because. God created the world. Out of dust. It wasn’t an accident.” Almost everyone nodded in agreement. A minuscule minority appeared […]
[…] senior class ring from Jordan High School, an old can full of buttons, and a photo of the two of us at my college graduation. The memories are gradually turning into anecdotes that I […]
At last, an absorbing sequel to Juanita Brooks’s momentous work, The Mountain Meadows Massacre. Just when Mormon church leaders and scholars alike were ready to accept that Brooks has the last, if not final, […]
[…] dressing near a window: wearing my mod Americanism loudly instead of keeping it covered. In my husband’s world, our interests, the details about our lives, belong to our families and are for their eyes […]
[…] chapters in which each author takes turns explaining his own position. Every chapter begins with an author breaking up his discussion into four sections: (1) what his own religious tradition believes about the particular […]
[…] us his thoughts on the role of the historian in interpreting to the Church and to the world the sacred history of the Latter-day Saints. We sat, literally and figuratively, at his feet, disciples […]
The next morning Allison dropped Howard at the Mormon church in Rockwood, which, except for the thin spire, was shaped like a large, sub urban house. Though he had asked, she refused to […]
[…] de lightsome vs. dark and loathsome, and the unceasing battle between good and evil both in the world at large and within every person). While the later church took a rigid stance with respect […]
[…] encounter, in spite of plenty of evidence that they are not immune from the evils of the world. Perhaps, instead of prayer, they would be better served by a special MTC training course de […]