[…] abilities and everyone receives according to their needs. The Saints in Orderville tried to live selflessly, despite human foibles. I still remember the closing scene: After eleven years Brigham Young has stopped the experiment […]
Why do I believe? For many years I did not feel comfortable answering this question. I would explain that my ancestors were among the first members of the Mormon Church and were important religious leaders…
[…] docile, passive children is a hierarchical value. It is not a religious value, nor is it a human value. I see nothing in the New Testament to indicate that Jesus expects children—or adults either—to […]
[…] had been my own wrongful disdain for clothing as symbol? In my unwillingness to acknowledge that every human experience is capable of being lived on a different plane, it logically followed that the garment […]
[…] general histories were once local histories. To the extent that they remain rooted in the truths of human experience, they still are. Local history brings us face to face with ordinary people who worked […]
Many Latter-day Saints worry that as the Mormon Church has become more corporate in nature, it has not retained its strictly religious focus. Some have argued that its extensive financial holdings have made the Church…
This anthology is designed for people with a professional interest in Mormon historiography as well as for the much larger number of men and women who have been intrigued or alarmed by the rhetoric about…
[…] manger. A stable. Amidst the fecal stink of animals. Conceived out of wedlock too. If you followed human logic, a bastard—shhh! Tracy! She had tried to edit the thought, but it had given her […]
[…] gawk. I grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the sixties and seventies. Civil rights, equal rights, and human rights were foremost in that academic community’s consciousness. But the heart cannot always embrace what the […]
[…] someone he or she values and respects. In my view the key to understanding Christ’s admonitions about human relationships is to understand this concept of mutual and reciprocal esteem and dignity. Brethren, this means […]