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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
The 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…
At 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.
[…] briefly studied phonography (today we would say stenography), and for many years doggedly sought a revolution in English orthography. When time per mitted, he walked a half block from his office to ensure sobriety […]
[…] metallic plates. But even a cursory survey of early nineteenth-century literature disproves such a claim. Translated into English by Thomas C. Upham, John’s Biblical Archaeology was published in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1823, five years […]
[…] of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Century I, 6 vols., (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1930), vol. 2; Brodie, No Man Knows My History; Donna Hill, Joseph Smith: The First […]