[…] a coming-of-age memoir that is not so much about Mormonism—or growing up in Utah—as haunted by it. As I read, I settled almost too easily into the places and people of someone I’ve never known, completely […]
if i have seemed lately to turn from you and mail my mind beyond our common rooms as if the calm intelligence your eyes offer to share were not sufficient plea
[…] She throws her arms around me and cries softly on my shoulder. She tells me in broken English, “My son is gay and has left the Church. I love my iglesia and I love […]
[…] Perspectives” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 23 No. 2 (1990): 99–105. Underwood discusses why two religions who share the same exact upbringing have different opinions about the temple rituals. 1990: M. Guy Bishop, “‘What […]
[…] be translated in, and someone else answered around 20 (and three at the end of the year, English, Spanish, Portuguese) 5. A personal question: How did you weather the (ERA) storm of hearing things […]
[…] my mother and grandmother laughing in the next room. I would soak in the security of my world. Now as an adult, I bask in that same gentle orange glow and connect to my […]
[…] most of the night, anticipating some message. None came. The pressure to marry increased almost to my breaking point. It seemed everyone wanted to line me up with “a friend.” Even total strangers called […]
[…] legitimize sexual behavior; the purpose of sealing is to legitimize the eternal and everlasting bonds that people share with one another, be they homosexual or otherwise. Fifth, the Standard Model doesn’t leave room for […]
[…] dogmatism (especially religious dogmatism) grow in the land. And here is Paul, whobrought Christianity to the Western world, speaking the same words. “Prove all things”: consider all things; look at all possibilities; examine your […]
[…] were slight, others were radical. However, 199 verses are word for word the same as the Old English version. We there- fore freely admit that Joseph Smith may have used the King James version […]