[…] — 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 […]
[…] that the faith of the community survives, that they are able to go on believing in the world and the value of prayer, even when they have learned that this is a world where […]
[…] faith. It is no longer beyond her, as it was before her conversion, to consider the spirit world viable, the distance between mortals and their predecessors, small. It is something she sometimes hopes for, […]
[…] population. Until recently I subscribed to the optimistic view. I witnessed the phenomenal growth during the post- World War II decades as member ship figures increased by 2,000 percent in forty years; the Australian […]
[…] international gospel is increasingly lived locally by individuals trying to make sense out of a globally interconnected world. In the next century claims of an ethnic Mormon identity will continue to be made by […]
I turned from the calendar to find the diary in my bookcase. It was hard to miss; the orange and red cover stood out like a sister at a priest hood meeting. I started […]
Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 61–71 THE WORLD IS RAPIDLY CHANGING as new technologies change the way we think, act, and live. This is particularly true with the many changes biology has wrought in our […]
[…] York, and in Salt Lake City—perhaps outside every window from which she was destined to view the world—Leila knew women walked about without veils, without male escorts, without fear and shame, able to reach […]
[…] an expansion greater than any private agony. For my country, for my people and others around the world: where to turn for peace? The hymn ended: He answers privately, Reaches my reaching In my Gethsemane, […]
[…] sound. I felt completely alone. Then I thought, “I wonder when I’ll come up again?” and the world exploded around me. I was back with water in my eyes and the jumpsuit clinging to […]