Defending Jose
April 1, 2018[…] and me against The Man. Samuel liked it. He pushed it in the first stage. The whole world against us. I feel your pain. We can make it, but we’ve got to work together. […]
[…] and me against The Man. Samuel liked it. He pushed it in the first stage. The whole world against us. I feel your pain. We can make it, but we’ve got to work together. […]
[…] money.” “I don’t want it back, Elsie. You don’t have to worry about anything.” “How in the world?” Shaking her head, she closed her eyes and then opened them again. “Where’s the bishop? Where’s […]
[…] been strangers except for the fishing. It was as if their fishing put them in another minor world. They visited each other at Christmas to drop off a gift that always had to do […]
During the worst economic depression in the history of the United States up to 1929, that of the 1890’s, the highest leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, along with several […]
[…] ordered the udders on Disney’s cartoon cows removed as too titillating. It was a white male, G-rated world. What would change so satisfying a status quo? The answer is the same force that moved […]
[…] congregation in Independence, Missouri. After a week of solemn and joyful conference services remembering the past century of the denomination’s history, men from across the world sat seeking the Lord’s further direction before Easter services.
One day when my BYU Greek class was awaiting the arrival of our teacher, Tom Rogers popped his head in the doorway and talked to us for ten or fifteen minutes or so. (One […]
Marvin Hill argued in 1989 that the fundamental problem early Mormonism was designed to address was the problem of pluralism. Pluralism, according to Hill, caused a situation of social disintegration and insecurity to which […]
Jonathan Z. Smith famously remarked that “a comparison is a disciplined exaggeration in the service of knowledge.”One of the insights that has animated the study of comparative religion in the past several decades is […]
[…] feel less certain, though my continual return to her faith is a necessary part of me, and the humility at the core of Christianity argues for a return. The recent fire, destruction, and transformation […]