[…] anything more than a minimal formal organization. Indeed, he insisted that his kingdom was not of this world (see John 18:36), and his recorded actions appear to support this declaration. He went about doing […]
[…] natural relations with women” and “committed shameful acts with other men.” While much of the conservative Christian world cites these scriptures as primary evidence of God’s prohibition of homosexual behavior, perhaps somewhat surprisingly LDS […]
[…] to be looked upon as the very foundation of their church and the greatest event in the world’s history since the resurrection of the Son of God. The first vision story states that Joseph […]
[…] of my Mormon heritage, but this does not preclude my questioning within my cultural upbringing about the world, or worlds, in which I live. I wish that I could accept the basic premises advanced […]
[…] these we select features from what we see and make a rapid succession of ‘models’ of the world in our minds.” Out of what begins as what William James calls the “great blooming, buzzing […]
[…] (1947), pp. 1-3. Andrew Jenson, L.D.S. Biographical Encyclopedia, I, pp. 548-49. Thomas B. Marsh said that after breaking with Joseph Smith, Warren Parrish became a “disbeliever in revealed religion.” Although Parrish became a leader […]
[…] that is the purpose of scripting the tryst, the lovemaking will transform the relationship or the protagonists’ world. As we watch the two characters attract and unite, the experienced viewer decodes the action not […]
[…] . . . (Boston, 1747). The common belief associated with all was the eminent consummation of the world, the Second Advent and millennial era – a period of one thousand years during which Satan […]
[…] a contemporary American poet. The poem de tails the encounter of a late twentieth-century consciousness with a world other than this one. Merrill’s sensibility as a poet is pronouncedly lyrical: most of his poems […]
[…] polygamy. Therefore it should not surprise us that polygamy has been practiced in many parts of the world. Plural marriage has been found in India, Nepal, China, the Middle East, Africa, Indonesia, Australia, in […]