[…] A million rolls of microfilm stored in Granite Mountain vaults pre serve and centralize much of the world’s genealogical information. Computers minimize work for membership and financial clerks while providing better reports for bishops. […]
[…] certain corrupt ideas. It didn’t have to be this way, of course. One can easily imagine a world where Mormonism refuses to recognize the authority of other churches but nevertheless maintains that truth can […]
[…] Saint theologies of race and lineage. This stands in stark contrast to other Indigenous groups throughout the world, particularly within the Pacific and the Americas, whose ethnic identity has been cosmologically deliberated since the […]
[…] fuller sense of feminine divinity. McArthur: Plus, Bethany and I both have three daughters. We want the world to be a different place for them to grow up in. Look around. Is this a […]
[…] Nibley’s prior conclusions with the publication in 1987 of D. Michael Quinn’s Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, and even more so with the expanded and revised edition of the book in 1998. […]
[…] Joseph Smith’s Nauvoo ritual system. On the other hand, this meant defining themselves against the Brighamites by breaking their silence on plural marriage. In addition to their own internal anxieties over plural marriage, which […]
[…] was like old Wylie, welcoming a young missionary home, shaking his hand, sending him out into the world to find a wife and build a life. And he had a vision of himself, rising […]
[…] other states also have numerous high-level corporate executives. The Mormon production of high achievers in the executive world is part of a larger achievement of excellence. Consequently, the first part of this article deals […]
[…] V, 259). In August of the same year, Smith declared, “I am above the kingdoms of the world, for I have no laws. I am not come to tell you to vote this way, […]
[…] explain how the Book of Mormon originated. Joseph declined, saying: “It was not intended to tell the world all the particulars of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon.” His pat answer—which he […]