[…] both the left and right. Members on the so-called left have been excommunicated for heresy, feminism, history writing, and for identifying instances of ecclesiastical abuse. Members on the right have been cut off for […]
[…] fact that he was encouraging a woman to break out of a culturally defined gender role. Though service in the kitchen is not bad per se, a woman could also be a disciple and […]
[…] the investigator. This inventor of behaviorism declared that even something as artificial, personal, and creative as the writing of a poem was the same kind of process as having a baby and the outcome […]
[…] that Haitians readily accept present-day revelation through visions. Elder Vigliotti, a French elder who had almost finished his service, described what typically happens when he taught this concept to Haitian investigators: You know, when you […]
[…] my servants, it is the same” (D&C 1:38). Yet other scriptural utterances imply that human speech and writing reflect humankind’s “lost and fallen state” and is therefore fallible (1 Ne. 10:6). In such passages, […]
[…] his home in the valley of Cochabamba. He spoke of the impact that two years of missionary service had had on him, a former engineering student at the university, and how much he cared […]
[…] the first two years there, again turning out more uninspired scripts because I hadn’t yet connected my writing with my own psyche and truly fascinating Mormon concerns. In the meantime, I more fully discovered […]
[…] critiques of our work, we have never failed to take advantage of his critical insights, and our writing always has been substantially improved as a result. No contemporary scholar has had greater influence on […]
[…] responsibility, one member of the quorum presidency accepted as his primary duty the coordination of the community service project. 3. Use of existing agencies. This decision was dictated by our lack of experience and […]
[…] and YWMIA General Boards of the Church. The following explanation accompanied the questionnaire: I am researching and writing a profile of women in L.D.S. leadership positions, largely General Board members, and I am there- […]