[…] only a few years ago, faster almost than we can respond. It has also made us the target of anti-American sentiment and violence. Yet, in spite of all, church membership has now reached nine million.
[…] our parish football team play against a team from a Protestant community. Objective sports admirer that I am, I applauded an action of the adversary. Immediately the man in front of me turned and […]
LDS attitudes towards war and peace in general have been covered fairly comprehensively in the past decade or so. The attitudes are complex and generally attempt to strike a balance between the duty to […]
[…] (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1967). Joseph Smith Jr. et al., History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts, 6 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1902-12), 1:253.
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[…] Richard Dutcher’s latest film Falling, a rich scene revealing the subtle conflict between the demands of commerce and artistic endeavor is focused around the word marrow. The protagonist, lapsed Mormon Eric Boyle, a suffering […]
[…] from My Past Listen to an interview about this piece here. My patriarchal blessing indicates that I am a literal descendant of Ephraim and heir to specific blessings and promises. But what does this […]
[…] a Muslim family; she was baptised on May 5, 1961. Moreover, in 1962, the local newspaper Torres News reported that subsequent Mormon missionaries were received with traditional dances before they began to proselyte. Previous […]
[…] others on this campus to be contaminated by your presence.”27 The speech, published in the church-owned Deseret News, also signaled a growing belief that homosexuality was a sort of communicable disorder or disease that […]
[…] question, so the stories go, it was within the context of writing yet another literary form I am not looking to publish: sermons. While a valid question for a sermon-writer, short story writers do […]