[…] life. For example, the surgeon’s knife morphs throughout Joseph’s life into the sword of Laban. The inner world of the Joseph that Morain describes is dark and driven, with the one traumatic childhood event […]
[…] context of Aaron, one would expect a reference to D. Michael Quinn’s Early Mormonism and the Magic World View to buttress the assertion that the original text referred to a divining rod. (Marquardt is […]
[…] the nineteenth century. For this reason, Mormon America could not have arrived at a better time. Though breaking no new scholarly ground, the authors have proffered a responsible, accessible, and engaging account of the […]
[…] aware of the need within Mormonism to be separate from other forms of Christianity—a theme central to her 1985 path- breaking work, Mormonism: The Story of A New Religious Tradition. The difficulty is that it is unclear how […]
[…] revised book of Nature in mind. The two books reviewed here illustrate possibilities for doing this without breaking faith with either science or religion. But they also remind us that those who have troubled […]
[…] 1984), maybe we should be trying to find ways to welcome these strangers in our midst, to share the love of Christ with them. It is interesting that Hispanics, who overwhelmingly have been Catholic, […]
[…] be achieved through his suffering. So it is that Jesus now engages with the sin of the world. Through what I will call a form of mystical atonement—something which has become a distinctive feature […]
[…] Cusins,” Carma says. “She plays the witch.” “Sophie!” The boy stirs and becomes alert. “Sophie’s in honors English. She’s way cool.” “And the witch!” the girl adds. “She’s been rehearsing for it all her […]
“Have you heard the really bad news?” my editor, Doc, asked almost off handedly as he wound the film in his camera. Then came that pause.
[…] of us need to get together and lean on each other. We could swap persecution stories and share interesting scientific details, such as the fact that a banana is only 15 percent genetically different […]