Listen to Claremont Chair of Mormon Studies Patrick Mason discuss and dissect anti-mormonism, polygamy, current politics, Native American, African-Americans, religious pluralism, slavery, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Cane Creek Massacre and much more in […]
[…] new things that would have previously been impossible in Mormon publications: I think of Carol Hansen’s ground- breaking personal essay, “The Death of a Son,” the challenging roundtables on Vietnam and urbanization and civil […]
[…] this breech of Senate decorum but took no action as the spectators rapidly cleared the chamber bearing news of the bill’s passage (CR, 1217). The Edmunds Bill first appeared before the House of Representatives […]
[…] technical. Boyd appears to make several claims in his letter. One of these is that the real world of active scientific research is far from the serene, polite image popularly held. He claims that […]
[…] that end either transpires or is implied in each case here), but rather for meaning in a world of failed dreams. It is a big order Freeman sets for herself, since such answers, if […]
[…] because of my religion. Well informed about LDS beliefs, he answered not a word. Intelligence Uncreated Most world religions, including traditional Christianity, begin with the idea that God existed alone. He then created all […]
[…] was something else out there, a better way to live. Only by braving their father’s wrath, by breaking with Catholicism and joining the Mormons and enduring his total, albeit temporary, rejection, had they been […]
[…] leave me here; take me with you.” But she went alone and left me to face the world without her—a world from which the focus of meaning had gone. My reason for doing everything […]
[…] can become. Sex is sanctioned within marriage, especially when the intent is to bring children into the world. Unfortunately, the messages urging restraint and the warnings against sexual sin, even between husband and wife, […]
[…] Zion is the pure in heart, Those who seek the Savior’s part. Zion soon in all the world Will rise to meet her God. (Hymn #47) On every branch of my family tree, I’ve […]