[…] audience (also a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) called my research “old news” and made some harsh and disparaging remarks about my analysis. I was upset by her comments, […]
Dialogue 52.1 (Spring 2019): 17–32 I do not lend the weight of truth to the language of ritual. Such language is symbolic. But even in the context of symbolism, language that is so preferential […]
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[…] “It is the business of the Elders .. . to gather up all the truths in the world pertaining to life and salvation, to the Gospel we preach, to mechanism of every kind, to […]
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