A decade from now, same -sex marriage will likely be the law in a majority of states. Given the domino effect of legislatures embracing a cause that has successfully claimed the mantle of equality, […]
The hard -fought campaign over Proposition 8, which in November 2008 rescinded the legal right to marriage for same–sex couples in California, is evidence of an important political success for religious conservative political groups […]
<i>Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2013):188–206</i><br>The scripture I have in mind, of course, is the Book of Mormon. What follows is a Gentile’s appreciation—even recommendation—of this well–known but largely unread example of worldclass scripture.
[…] of other women. He opened his mouth to utter a cheery “Good morning,” but was arrested mid -word by the collective gasp of all three of the women as they turned to look at […]
[…] preoccupation with structural collapse legitimizes a critical consideration of the way that language functions in the book, rendering the Book of Mormon particularly well -suited to a reading that employs the techniques of post–structural criticism.
[…] and now the mother of three daughters; second, my role as founder, in 2010, of a non -profit organization, the Mormon Women Project, which publishes stories of faithful Latter–day Saint women from around the […]
[…] to their visual dominance. European Mormons sometimes feel that in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints they have been dealt a short hand in architecture, as in this sense, Mormonism does […]
[…] the moment I walked into the humidity and human warmth of the Atlanta airport after a two -year church mission in the former East Germany: though I’d loved and grown familiar with the land […]
[…] the hospitality by providing blessings to those who offer it. In all of these stories, the guest -host relationships become inverted through divine sanction, as the guest turns out to be the one who […]
[…] the Book of Mormon immediately following its publication. Thus there is a need for a reassessment of the relation between early nineteenth -century Universalism and the teachings of the Book of Mormon and subsequent revelations.