[…] Nephite and Lamanite territory. This view is still widely held; within the last few months, the Church News identified the estimated 177 million Indians of North and South America and Polynesians as Lamanites. This […]
[…] of encouragement), and following a few minor modifications, Talmage’s talk was printed in the November 1931 Deseret News, as well as in a separate church pamphlet at about the same time (the “pamphlet” was […]
[…] in 1995. Since the church leadership report total member ship most of the time, and refrain from breaking it down, total numbers for the church still look about the same as they have been […]
[…] a hip and you were really fixed. Going slowly blind, deaf, and lame was bad enough without breaking your hip and getting a jumpstart on the whole process. They got out of the truck […]
[…] universe, the paradigm shifts toward which she believed we were irrevocably streaming. She mentioned the ERA, brought newspaper clippings. At the solstice she lit candles and read from Madame Blavatsky. She believed, with Madame, […]
[…] than the plagues of Egypt, Rebeca told Sister Ortega to call Her Majesty and give her the news as something confidential, and she added some thing about the importance of knowing how to appease […]
[…] sin.” This one caught me off guard. “Sure ain’t much like a book, is it?” Front page news it was. Who could have driven away leaving the woman on the ground and her child—four […]
[…] a great pioneer or something,” Tregan said. “My dad said with all these Mormon fundamentalists in the news and that one guy being put on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, the city didn’t want […]
[…] not, have entered the Secular City. This term, coined by Harvey Cox, expresses (in “secular”) a “this worldness”—meaning that the work of the world must be done by man himself, and (in “city”) all […]
[…] observed that Mormons “. . . are clannish and well ordered,” and thus have difficulty in “ breaking away or non-conforming, even if they want to.” This suggestion of backwardness in social change illuminates […]