My Mission Decision
March 21, 2018[…] class to his office and to other classes. Gee closed the book and gave us our first writing assignment, a five-hundred-word essay, due in a week. 1 had never written an essay. At home […]
[…] class to his office and to other classes. Gee closed the book and gave us our first writing assignment, a five-hundred-word essay, due in a week. 1 had never written an essay. At home […]
[…] that the erotic is synonymous with evil. It is obvious from a strictly theological standpoint, once we get some objective bearing, that puritanism is inconsistent with the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, if not […]
[…] it. His sustained effort does not persuade me because it is not pursued consistently or evenhandedly. Muhlestein reviews various attempts over the past century and a half to formulate the etiology of homosexuality. These […]
[…] concerns endowments in the temple during the intense months from December 1845 to February 1846. McBride first reviews how the Saints prepared the temple for the endowments and, maintaining a chronological timetable, describes the […]
[…] women have made history” (xxxiii). Moving across time and space, Ulrich explores how women create history through writing the stories of their lives. She also shows how women’s histories are appropriated in varied ways […]
[…] of Mormon intellectual discussions, and I do not favor the suppression of events uncomfortable for Mormons when writing Mormon history. More original research is always better than less original research. On Arrington and the […]
Writing a one-volume treatment of modern Mormonism that avoids being overshadowed by the movement’s gripping nineteenth-century history and focuses instead on what Mormonism is today is a challenge for any author. Bushman, a […]
After more than thirty years as a historian and after writing dozens of book reviews, I confess that this one has been the most difficult response that I have ever had to write. Perhaps […]
[…] what especially makes Falling difficult to watch. There is not one moment of violence that does not get to the marrow of our culpability in being part of a culture that praises nightly news […]
Returning from spring break in 2005, Dr. Donna Freitas, assistant professor of religion at St. Michael’s College, a small Roman Catholic school near Burlington, Vermont, witnessed an epiphany in her “Dating and Friendship” course. […]