[…] Cohn, bossy angels, a Valium crazed woman who chews down a tree like a beaver and the breaking up and coming together of gays, Mormons, families and friends. He derides individualism as outmoded and […]
Joseph Smith’s revision of the Pauline closing, “ world without end” (Eph. 3:21) to become “worlds without end” (D&C 76:112), is a significant ontological move. Specifically, Smith’s closing provides an opening for contemporary Mormon […]
[…] capacities until late in 1969. From 1979 to 1981, he served as alternate executive director of the World Bank. King also has a long and distinguished record of service as a Church executive. Following […]
<i>Dialogue 40.1 (Spring 2007): 83–136</i><br>Watson explains how the secret marriage of Louis J. Barlow to a 15-year-old girl caused a major rift among fundamentalists. Today’s fundamentalist members are still experiencing the effects of that marriage.
[…] standpoint of academic freedom as one can expect to find anywhere in this country or in the world. Of course, there are limitations in all institutions. There are limitations which a qualified instructor should […]
[…] “apologist” as a non-judgmental, descriptive term, as explained in D. Michael Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, rev. and enl. ed. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998), x: “Not every believer is […]
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[…] C. of LDS that we have been called of God to accomplish the divine purpose in God’s world. When we make this assertion it does not necessarily follow that no other person or institution […]
[…] time even exhilarating, continually gratifying place as an “inside-outsider” in Zion. My first introduction to the Mormon world came in September 1960, when our family (my husband Tony, our eight-year-old son Stephen, and I) […]
[…] the theologs, priesthood for the priestly, original sin for the sinners, redemption for the regenerate. The Roman world in which Christianity was born was a marvelous pageant of gods, saviors, temples, priests, prophets, messiahs, […]