On the Edge: Mormonism’s Single Men
April 19, 2018The Doctrine and Covenants contains extremely specific instructions concerning marriage for men: In the celestial glory there are three heavens or degrees;
The Doctrine and Covenants contains extremely specific instructions concerning marriage for men: In the celestial glory there are three heavens or degrees;
[…] After all, man was given his abilities in the beginning to use in tending the garden (13: 3). And since the Fall he must work even harder to push back the resulting tide of […]
[…] Jesus Christ himself, promising the faithful they are sealed up unto “eternal life” (D&C 131:5, 130:5, 88: 3-4; John 14:23). It may be well to remind ourselves again that even church leaders who demand […]
[…] shop or from neighbor to neighbor, to borrow and return, to ask for help and give, to buy and sell, I saw him doing the truth and felt safe. One June dawn we drove […]
[…] vulnerable. Her frequent tears, and his own apologies and conjured explanations left him perplexed and humiliatingly insecure over a physical attraction which had once seemed obvious and elemental. It is true Ellen did not […]
Since the pioneering work of Orson Pratt, little advancement has been ‘made in the area we will refer to as celestial demography.
[…] from approximately 52,000 to 284,000, an average of 34 percent per decade. In 1980 membership reached 4. 6 million and from 1900 to 1980 growth averaged 43 percent per decade. During the 1950s Church […]
[…] (Salt Lak e City : University of Uta h Press, 1962), p . 25, 11. Lowell L. Bennion, “Faith and Reason: Th e Logic of the Gospel, ” DIALOGU E 6 (Autumn-Winter 1971) : 162.
[…] 17.2 (Summer 1984): 96–105</i><br>In 1979 and 1981, members of the Roberts family gave copies of these works to the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. Roberts’s two studies, with descriptive correspondence, will be […]
[…] of affairs. 5. God can create men such that they always do what is right (2, 4). 6. If God can create men such that they always do what is right and God is […]