[…] 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 […]
[…] all of our neighbors regardless of their skin color or differences and encourage members to view the videos in their homes, at Church firesides, and during Sunday classes or youth activities. These films could […]
[…] and importance. Typical of his efforts is the following from an article appearing in the Deseret Evening News. . . . . But when the day comes that we shall have a gathering point […]
[…] original, uncreated status in the universe, his present dignity and high moral and spiritual possibilities in this world, and the exaltation he may achieve in the hereafter. The optimistic tone of the Mormon doctrine […]
America’s worth to the world will be measured not by the solutions she seeks to impose on others, but by the degree to which she achieves her own ideals at home. That is a […]
[…] The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History (Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1909); James L. Barker, Apostasy from the Divine Church (Salt Lake City: K. M. Barker, 1960). […]
[…] House of the Lord: A Study of Holy Sanctuaries, Ancient and Modern (Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1912), pp. 18, 99-100, 234-38; John A. Widtsoe, “Fundamentals of Temple Doctrine,” Utah Genealogical and Historical […]
[…] that, nothing—except his long lean fingers curiously exploring the rippled ridges of her doughy belly, and their mutual frustration as they made love in a catalog of different positions, none of which would satisfy […]
[…] FBI under cover agents reporting back to J. Edgar Hoover on the terrible continuing threat of the world-wide communist (read: Mormon) conspiracy. Yet the Tanners have been more than simply gadflies; in curious and […]
[…] have a strong tradition of speculative theology, I want to explain some of my objectives and methods in writing this essay. My chief purpose is to make symbolic connections, to evoke families of images, […]