[…] of Diné identity and Latter-day Saint religious affiliation. Farina King draws on stories from the LDS Native American Oral History Project and her own family’s experiences, shedding light on the unique challenges Navajo Latter-day […]
[…] of Diné identity and Latter-day Saint religious affiliation. Farina King draws on stories from the LDS Native American Oral History Project and her own family’s experiences, shedding light on the unique challenges Navajo Latter-day […]
[…] (especially religious dogmatism) grow in the land. And here is Paul, who brought Christianity to the western world, speaking the same words. “Prove all things”: consider all things; look at all possibilities; examine your […]
[…] this particular physicality is necessary to our eternal way of being. I also believe that the natural world matters in ways beyond just providing a source of the raw material we need to grind […]
[…] — a moment of self-searching. From an unorthodox perspective, she sheds a candid, genuinely informative light on what some are calling this “Mormon moment” in American life: on Broadway, on TV, and in presidential politics…”
[…] the Latter-day Saint position—taken, he says, from the “semi-canonical 1995 document ‘The Family: A Proclamation to the World’” (p. 120)—with essentialism, and he positions himself on the side of constructivism. That wouldn’t necessarily spell […]
[…] of the Mormons: The Architecture of the Millennial Kin in the American West 133 Reynolds, Noel B. World-Wide: The Expanding Church by Spencer J. Palmer 134 Windt, Peter Y. The Last Anecdotes: Deity and […]
[…] to devotional readings. As Christopher Jones has shown, there is an unmistakable resonance to the broader early American context within it . JS’s experience was not as foreign to his environment as some may […]
In “LDS blacks, scholars cheer church’s essay on priesthood” at the Deseret News, Lester Bush’s famous Dialogue piece is referenced. “Rees was […]
[…] way Spencer challenges long-standing individualist interpretations of Paul’s teachings. Spencer demonstrates that salvation is a communal endeavor in Paul’s world, as in Joseph Smith’s. Spencer uses some of the best Pauline scholarship on offer today and […]