[…] ordained to be a queen to her husband, as women now are ordained in their initiatory wash ing and anointing ceremony. When Vilate Kimball received her second anointing in the Nauvoo Temple on 8 […]
[…] exam-ple, these editorials cited campaigns for modesty in Philadelphia schools and elsewhere, quoted Parisian fashion experts who de-nounced miniskirts that exposed women’s knobby knees and flabby thighs, and also quoted alleged FBI statistics that […]
[…] uses of Mormonism in other science-fiction novels. Ian Watson’s The Embedding (New York: Bantam, 1977) and Dean Ing’s Systemic Shock (New York: Ace, 1981) both contain stereotypical references to Mormonism, with little expression of […]
[…] controversial material as well. What a strength it would be if we could amplify the former and de-emphasize the latter. Rees responded promptly, and his sensitivity to the perceptions of Dialogue is apparent: I […]
3 Nephi 1-7; September 14: Michael D. K. Ing Michael D.K. Ing is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University where he studies ethics in early Chinese thought, and […]
[…] that is somewhat obscure. There is no competent manuscript authority for reading 3, on which the KJV de pends. This mistaken reading arose when Desiderius Erasmus, the sixteenth century Dutch scholar, misunderstood a comment […]
In February 1987 at a fireside for parents, President Ezra Taft Benson delivered an address called “To the Mothers in Zion.” In October 1987, he delivered a parallel address in the priesthood session of […]
[…] to ecclesiastical authority and the integrity of individual conscience is certainly not one upon which Mormonism has a monopoly. But the past two decades have seen accelerating tensions in the relationship between the institutional […]
[…] temple has maintained its central role in the lives of Latter-day Saints by being able to create a point of intersection between human desires for righteousness and the divine willingness to be bound by […]
[…] trees, and lifted cattle and people into the air. Figure 2: Claude-Louis Desrais, Caricature sur la comète de 1811 , National Library of France. Although Americans didn’t understand the cause of the 1816 weather […]