City of Saints
October 26, 2018[…] as a school district superintendent in New Orleans, as far as you could get from the legal world or the world of the Big Eight (or was it now the Big Four?) accounting firms […]
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Peculiar People, Positive Thinkers, and the Prospect of Mormon Literature
May 4, 2018[…] It might be best to illustrate my thesis by explaining the somewhat parallel circumstances I encountered during World War II at London headquarters of the Air Force Public Relations Office. On the ground floor […]
Zeal Without Knowledge
April 25, 2018In one of his fascinating scientific survey books, this time dealing with the latest discoveries about the brain, Nigel Calder notes, “Two of the most self-evident characteristics of the conscious mind are that 1) […]
Rachel R. Grant: The Continuing Legacy of the Feminine Ideal
April 19, 2018[…] Grant Family Correspondence, LDS Church Archives. Another wife complained that the frequently writing Rachel monopolized all the news, ibid. [31] HJG to Florence [Grant], 8 June 1905, LC 39:832; RRG, Thirteenth Ward Relief Society […]
The Freiberg Temple: An Unexpected Legacy of a Communist State and a Faithful People
March 23, 2018[…] thirty years later. The Iron Curtain did not descend upon East Germany immediately at the end of World War II. The political isolation that would eventually be fall its citizens was not obvious to […]
The Persistence of Mormon Plural Marriage
March 16, 2018This essay addresses the remarkable perseverance of Mormon polygamy.I argue that its survival is chiefly explained by the emphasis it was given in the nineteenth-century Church. The cardinal significance early leaders granted plurality in […]
LGBTQ Latter-day Saint Theology
August 20, 2020[…] opportunities to live by light) are redeemed, resurrected and exalted into kingdoms of glory in a post-mortal world. In this view of mortal life as a testing ground replete with uncertainty and ambiguity, LGBTQ […]
Can Mormons be White in America?
October 26, 2018The emerging field of whiteness studies in the US asks some provocative questions: How do outsiders lay claim to citizenship? How do minorities shed their image as un-American? How do they, in other […]
Christ Without the Church: The Challenge of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
May 4, 2018[…] campuses, on the pages of ecumenical youth journals, in fraternities of younger ministers, and in the theological world generally. John T. Elson, writing in 1965 in Life, pointed out that Bonhoeffer’s books were gaining […]
Omissions in the King James New Testament
April 25, 2018[…] Texts (as translated in the RSV) Which is come vnto you, as it is in all the world, and bringeth foorth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day yee heard of […]