[…] rather than the conservative tradition bound rural areas. The second part of Meek’s book focuses on the world of the Christian congregations. These assemblies of believers were organized around the household and existed both […]
The world’s living religions began with the lives and teachings of charismatic leaders such as Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muham mad. Each won a following by the force of his character, the witness […]
[…] age for the earth (generally less than ten thousand years), formation of the fossil record in a single, world-wide flood, unique special creation events for each biblical “kind,” separate ancestry for humans and the other […]
[…] the principles that underpin current tensions. If successful in even a modest degree, we might succeed in breaking the long impasse that saps, and has sapped, so much good will, time, and energy from […]
[…] (HC 2:433-34). These subgroups were kept insulated from each other (HC 2:287, 324, 335-6, 475). In today’s world where liability-limiting corporations can be formed almost at will, the myriad of general partner/silent partner arrangements […]
3 September 1984 Today my youngest child went to school all day for the first time. Every mother approaches this milestone with both anticipation and dread. I reached this point once before, six years […]
[…] tool of sexist church leaders. It was too much. I felt a fierce desire to show the world Mormon women as I know them: liberal, conservative, confident, fearful, happy, depressed, sometimes all of the […]
[…] defended the Mormon system of plural marriage, mirroring Young’s remarks by contrasting the corrupt and debased outside world, which recognized the common law and merely winked at adultery, to the territory of Utah, which […]
[…] between the needs of the individual and of the community, between civilization and the wilderness, between the world and the Church, between the Saints and God — the struggling im perfect prophet in whom […]
[…] closing prayer. We protested briefly, hoping the next two meetings would offer her more, but gave in, breaking mission rules to take her home in our Church-owned car. We returned and sat miserably through […]