In October of 1993 Dallin H. Oaks, an apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and Steve Benson, editorial cartoonist for the Arizona Republic and eldest grandson of former LDS president […]
[…] he had broken his back in a waterskiing accident. It was a dangerous injury; his mother feared for her oldest son and prayed for him, and he recovered. When Gina came, it seemed she […]
[…] of impulses designed to serve the immediate needs of the community; the need to capture the past for its own sake is not important to the functionalistic creation of historical consciousness. Religious communities in […]
[…] They are too easy, too narrow, and too unreflective even when they purport to measure that quality for which they are being used. This one is particularly disturbing because church members have adopted the […]
[…] Robert M. Price offers his perspective on the origin of the Book of Mormon and a recommendation for how Latter-day Saints should understand the significance of that book. Dr. Price’s position is straight forward […]
[…] he would be delayed a week in Salt Lake City and that Ismael, a Syrian who worked for him, would be accompanying her and Fatima to Saudi Arabia. Although Leila had not wanted to […]
[…] twentieth century, the bloodiest and most war-crazed in the history of the world, has alone been responsible for combat in which “not less than 62 million civilians have perished, nearly 20 million more than […]
[…] of these interrelated testimonies is essential to our identity as Friends, but we are clearly best known for one of them. As H. Larry Ingle has pointed out, “he Quaker peace testimony the most […]
[…] between the two groups. Almost from the time of Wilford Woodruffs 1890 Manifesto with holding official recognition for new plural marriages in the LDS Church, dissenters opposed this and other measures aimed at bringing […]
[…] have been the increasing focus of exhibitions in New York and in the West, created original artworks for Mormoniana (Mormon Artists Group Press). In this project, sixteen Mormon composers each selected a visual artwork […]