[…] Latter-day Saints (usually called Mormon or LDS church) is having enormous success in most parts of the world. Growth is particularly impressive in Latin America. In 1971 there were only 217,500 LDS members on […]
[…] Mattie was a Boston transplant. Don’t ask me how he got out to our side of the world, but he did. See, I’d never met any driver’s ed teachers from Boston, anyone from Boston, […]
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[…] even started. On the other hand, for some, God’s absence is itself an obvious aspect of the world as it is given. God’s improbability presents itself as a fact not as a choice. And […]
[…] J. Blum and Paul Harvey describe the use of the Christus in LDS “welcome centers” around the world noting that while “Blacks were technically welcome . . . they first had to pass by the powerful white […]
[…] there before, but now they were widely and accurately available to Church members and leaders around the world and accessible to outside scholars. The new tome placed them in context. It was cause for […]
Dialogue 55.1 (Spring 2022): 37 Marginalizing God the Mother does not solve the problems raised by Mormonism’s doctrine of divine and human embodiment. It merely diminishes femaleness as a reflection of divinity. We do […]
In a 1969 review-essay entitled ” The New Mormon History,” Moses Rischin spoke of the sophistication with which scholars both within and without the Mormon culture were beginning to examine the Mormon past. He […]
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[…] 1981): 28–39 Some time in June 1970,I invited a few friends to my house to chat about the then emerging women’s movement. If I had known we were about to make history, I would […]