Of Pleasures and Palaces
April 14, 2018[…] the first tree when Mother called them back to help with the packages. She always assumed the world owed her a living. Her motto was: Let everybody else do the world’s work and abide […]
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Is There Such a Thing as a “Moral War”?
April 13, 2018[…] Grenada, Panama, Nicaragua, and Kuwait) have “leavened” Canadian attitudes in general. Church members often react to war news with a kind of “millenialist anticipation,” an almost backhanded joy arising from the belief that we […]
“No Respecter of Persons”: A Mormon Ethics of Diversity
April 9, 2018[…] power only to use it unrighteously. Increased pride in ethnic or religious identity has sometimes brought, not mutual respect and tolerance that builds community but tribalization, re opening of centuries-old wounds and violent conflict […]
The Last Battle: C.S. Lewis and Mormonism
April 2, 2018[…] (June 1994): 8-9. On this, see Hyrum M. Smith, Doctrine and Covenants Commentary (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1941), 1002-1003. Orson Whitney expected that “the future will be an open vision,… the past, […]
“But They Didn’t Win”: Politics and Integrity
April 2, 2018[…] with the “liberal” brush be cause they were in the same party as that “pro-gay” Anderson. The headlines blared, “Anderson’s Stands Split Utah Demos” and “Stance on Same-sex Marriage Is Likely to Handicap Anderson.” […]
The Rhetoric of Hypocrisy: Virtuous and Vicious
March 29, 2018[…] found to do some doctoring up, some jazzing up, some cleaning up as we present ourselves to the world. Most of us struggle to ap pear as better than we feel we really are—just as […]
The Danish Genesis of Virginia Sorensen’s Lotte’s Locket
March 28, 2018[…] they decide to marry in the two weeks before Patrick has to leave Denmark. This is devastating news for Lotte, who is used to her mother’s complete attention and affection and who wants to […]
How Missionaries Entered East Germany: The 1988 Monson-Honecker Meeting
March 21, 2018[…] the border our joy was beyond description. President Schütze could hardly contain himself. He honked the horn, blinked the headlights, shouted and cried for joy because after fifty years missionaries were again in his country.”
Should Mormon Women Speak Out? Thoughts on Our Place in the World
March 20, 2018I am happy to pay tribute to Gene England, a vivid and significant twentieth-century intellectual of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Gene influenced many Mormons with his rigorous ethics, his lived […]
Mormon and Queer at the Crossroads
March 16, 2018[…] essay explores conflicting messages within LDS teaching on LGBT rights, when it both opposed same-sex marriage and in the wake of Prop 8 also came out in support of other LGBT rights that display […]