The Road to Emmaus
March 28, 2018[…] called Emmaus, a small town seven or eight miles from Jerusalem. This is a journey that began in despair and concluded in hope, and I wish to examine this transformation and apply it to […]
[…] called Emmaus, a small town seven or eight miles from Jerusalem. This is a journey that began in despair and concluded in hope, and I wish to examine this transformation and apply it to […]
[…] aware (although some along the Wasatch Front have a hard time visualizing it) that rapid growth rates in Latin America, Africa, and the Philippines are essentially among people of color. However, it is my […]
[…] moment of candor, she writes, “Never does my mind revert to the scenes enacted on that ‘isolated world’ but I remember the patter of those little feet, and can see the golden child in […]
[…] the Scientific Study of Religion 38, no. 1 (1999): 59-71. Church Almanac 1999-2000 (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1998), 544, 547-549. See Henri Gooren (‘Analyzing LDS Growth in Guatemala: Report from a Barrio,” Dialogue: […]
[…] the mean things the other boys were doing. The Ju family thought highly of my brothers. When World War II began, my parents told Ju Gin there was farm land available in Southern California […]
A few years ago while visiting a used bookstore in the Old City (Gamla Stan) section of Stockholm, I asked the proprietor whether he had any materials about Mormons. He brought out a small […]
[…] ordered the udders on Disney’s cartoon cows removed as too titillating. It was a white male, G-rated world. What would change so satisfying a status quo? The answer is the same force that moved […]
[…] like “a conspiracy” (to quote a fine review of a BYU symposium as reported in the Church News)? Why are Mormon women who go to work to send a son on a mission or perhaps […]
[…] might. Who held the priesthood didn’t seem nearly as important as who used it. Our mix of mutual goals, mutual respect, and a healthy dose of humility suddenly gave patriarchy a very light touch […]
<i>Dialogue 36.3 (2003): 53-80</i><br> Compton considers priesthood as portrayed in Old Testament texts and how women are underrepresented in today’s discourse.