[…] ward was about forty percent people of color, including a large number of refugees, immigrants, and African Americans. In my work in the Primary and Relief Society presidencies, as well as a visiting teacher, […]
[…] evaluate and judge, hence are better prepared to recognize and help counter the ills of a male-dominated world. But certain aspects of the LDS culture can bar even women from enlightening themselves through personal […]
[…] initiated in a revelation to the church, Section 156 of the Doctrine and Covenants, presented to the World Conference by Dr. Wallace B. Smith, President and Prophet, and overwhelmingly approved by the delegates assembled […]
Although as Mormons we are fond of saying that we are in the world but not of it, the boundaries we establish between ourselves and worldly influences become very thin when we consider our […]
[…] to charges of hypocrisy and illegitimacy—it was this critique that ultimately brought it down after the second World War, after all—the new elite is more or less secure from critiques leveled in the language […]
Although as Mormons we are fond of saying that we are in the world but not of it, the boundaries we establish between ourselves and worldly influences become very thin when we consider our […]
[…] the faculty at Graceland College. Some adult church school study texts in Biblical studies, church history and world religions, published by the Religious Education Department, reflected perspectives not common to typical Reorganized saints, who […]
[…] to move ahead with the times. Roger A. Revell, Commissioner of the Worship Commission at the RLDS World Headquarters, stated, “The late sixties were a period of tremendous theological exploration for RLDSism; many of […]
[…] made up into a roll ten or fifteen feet long. There are a few experts in the world who operate, not in terms of the written text, as I do, but in terms of […]
[…] riots at Alton. A mob threw into the river the press of the Alton Observer, an Abolition newspaper r published by Elijah Lovejoy. Lovejoy and a member of’ the mob were killed in a […]