[…] 1910 and 1920 by himself and others under President Joseph F. Smith. Those “who wilfully and maliciously design to break this important commandment shall be damned. They cannot have the spirit of the Lord. […]
[…] thee in the natural man” (Moses 1:13–14). If Moses, one of the greatest prophets, had never supposed humanity’s utter nothingness compared to God, what makes us think we have even a whisper of understanding […]
[…] see the NRSV: “Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.” Since it’s in italics, there […]
[…] than I ever have. Aside from my reverence for them as prophets and empathy for them as human beings, my perspective as a historian does not place me in a position to judge these […]
[…] century, Latter-day Saints, like many Americans, embraced eugenics—the faddish (and erroneous) idea that science could improve the human race by breeding, good hygiene, and good morals. “A very great deal is expected of this […]
[…] But for God, who had called Abraham out of idolatry, out of the way of sacrifice of human beings in order to appease and please the gods, for God to turn now and ask […]
[…] contribution to the society in which you will live. . . . Almost the entire field of human endeavor is now open to women.” He further cited Rachel Carson as an exemplar, “trained in […]
[…] by reordering the whole economic structure.” If conceptions of nature are built around just one crescent of human experience, male, it is clear that the intergenerational repercussions of woman’s dismissal and subordination, her separation […]
[…] arguing that God could either “enjoin” or “permit” it to suit his purposes, and it was not humanity’s concern (“Baptism” 1893, 115). There can be no doubt, however, that Joseph Smith III held at […]
[…] He occupies both space and time. He is to be found some place and sometime as are human beings. The progressive God aspects of this are based on two interpretations. One is that the […]