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 […]
[…] the Eastern Orthodox doctrine of theopoiesis (76), where it is often repeated that the ultimate aim of the human beings is indeed to become God. The authors may have added that this theory is of […]
[…] broader historical study; it is at best only a specialty describing a minuscule part of the overall human experience. Our treating it otherwise is a form of Mormon imperialism, and it is time to […]
[…] Fall, and the symbolism and religious efficacy of marriage and sexuality.” Each too affirmed a process of human transformation and divinization. One must object that this particular recension of hermeticism is somewhat pre-focused in […]
[…] was Ruth Alice Bird Harper Lewis, and as grand mothers go, she was a rare and wonderful human being. The words of Sherry Thomas come to mind when I think of that dear, resourceful, […]
[…] no,” and I sat and read the article. I read and I wept—but not because an extraordinary human being and teacher had died. Even though his death was perhaps untimely, the result of a […]
[…] corporation. This tradition still guides Utah life. Joseph Smith’s Plat of the City of Zion was a design for small, distinct farming—based cities of no more than 20,000 people. However, the man in charge […]