Luke’s Train Ride
April 12, 2018[…] Dolly were to arrive in Indonesia, our house had been plastered with signs in both Indonesian and English saying, “Go home you American Dogs.” I had learned that our lives were in jeopardy and […]
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Reflections on a Bereavement
April 12, 2018[…] of her that makes up part of me. I know I should not torture myself with this search. It is too painful, and it is impossible. I go through her things in an attempt […]
The Survival of New Religious Movements | Timothy Miller, ed., When Prophets Die: The Post Charismatic Fate of New Religious Movements
April 12, 2018The unifying thesis of the twelve essays contained in When Prophets Die: The Post Charismatic Fate of New Religious Movements is that most new religious movements, though heavily dependent on a single dominant personality, usually…
Wild Blossoms of Faith
April 12, 2018[…] yet really my own. It is convenient and sensible to stay in a church when one knows that breaking a strong and successful legacy will scar family relationships. More to the point, if security is […]
Miscarriage
April 12, 2018[…] images flashed in my mind of dried-up people, withered like the lawns and gardens in the record- breaking summer drought. My second-grade teacher, Mrs. Chapman, sat in the same chair every day, her once-imposing […]
Judaism and Mormonism: Paradigm and Supersession
April 12, 2018[…] terms a “rabbinical metamorphosis.” Rudolf Glanz in Jews and Mormons (1963) mentions far more extreme examples among English “Anglo-Israelites,” including circumcision and seventh-day Sabbatarianism. Wilson notes that a New Englander in Santayana’s novel The […]
Jesus the Peasant
April 11, 2018[…] only way that is truly free for a peasant: it comes to you. Ever since the ground- breaking studies of Gerd Theissen in the early seventies, the itinerant radicalism of Jesus and of the […]
A Plea to the Leadership of the Church: Choose Love Not Power
April 11, 2018[…] True religion has never been respectable. If you are laughed at, laugh along. If you are criticized, search your souls. Jesus did not say, “count my sheep.” He said, “feed my sheep.” Do not […]
“In Obedience There Is Peace and Joy Unspotted” | B. Carmon Hardy, Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage
April 11, 2018The prophet Joseph Smith once told Nancy Rigdon, whom he was attempting to persuade to become his plural wife, that whatever God required was right, no matter what it was (374). Smith went on to…
God With Us
April 11, 2018At the baptismal Erma sings “Que grande es El,” her voice breaking, and the woman she has brought to Jesus, clothed in white on the front row, weeps.