As an offering in speculative theology, this paper reconsiders the current normative understanding of a male-only priesthood as presented in the Book of Mormon, specifically in Alma 13:1–20, and proposes that Alma presents a […]
[…] remembers in this context Gerard Manley Hopkins’s lovely allusion to the Holy Spirit who, “over the bent/ World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.”)[12] Even though recorded third-hand, the following account […]
[…] October, 1966, General Conference. The first is that of taking the message of the restoration to the world. “The other great purpose of the Church is to translate truth into a better social order […]
[…] cultural mainstream. Although successful missions were established among the Indians and especially among the Polynesians, it was nevertheless the English-speaking white Americans who gave the Church its leadership and set the tone of its culture.
Image history—how the Mormons were viewed by others—has been a fruitful approach used by several historians during the past decade.
[…] pen into a weapon against social injustice. His stark masterpieces Salka Valka (1931-32), Independent People (1934) and World Light (1937-40) depict the plight of defenseless and abject people struggling indomitably against indifferent nature and […]
[…] arts. Old Nick had circled some passages in a bright red magic marker. I quote: In our world, there have risen brilliant stars in drama, music, literature, sculpture, painting, science, and all the graces. […]
Dialogue 16.4 (Winter 1983): 22–31 This study addresses poetry within the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and defines an RLDS poet as someone who belongs to the RLDS church and […]
[…] of published works in the field of Mormon literature today consists of cliches borrowed from the larger world of bad literature. This cheap and easy fiction, the pretty romances, the cute tales of cute […]
[…] — the stigma of lesser status among converts. Sadly, this story counters the hope that a certain world view legitimized by various Church leaders and surviving somehow into the early seventies had, by the […]