[…] Why, I wondered, did she keep plugging away at a religion so at odds with her lifestyle? The answer, when it finally came, was less complicated than I had anticipated: she wanted her kids […]
[…] with more interaction with practicing Mormons. And the deliberate focus on “what is distinctive” in the Mormon world (xi) downplays important similarities to other religious groups. The book’s strengths and weak nesses play out […]
[…] a “minor but not inconsequential factor “for a church striving to present a bipartisan image to the world (187). His successes in this calling, however, appear to have led eventually to his fall from […]
Dialogue 33.4 (Winter 2000): 91 – 119 In 1967, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York made a gift to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of eleven papyrus fragments once […]
Dialogue 33.4 (Winter 2000): 91 – 119 In 1967, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York made a gift to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of eleven papyrus fragments once […]
[…] to wash before storing, and the same curvature of the spine in the back fence. But the world has turned in your absence. You return to your office, slip in a computer disk—the very […]
[…] version in 1 Nephi 10:12-14 focuses on the House of Israel, which is clearly associated with new world adherents rather than the Jews, who are usually specifically called “the Jews” in the Book of […]
This book has been published to significant acclaim, winning the Best Book award from the Mormon History Association for 2001. I agree with much of this praise, but nevertheless have serious reservations about some aspects […]
[…] look forward to their visits, especially our children. Grandpa is pleasant and takes a detached interest in the children. Sometimes he mixes them up with his other grandchildren, and he has a hard time […]
[…] said I was Christian. “No, what religion. . .Lutheran? Methodist? Presbyterian?” They seemed to think the Christian world was still locked in the nineteenth century sectarian squabbles they’d read about. These kids—who called the […]