[…] It used to be that we “prairie Mormons” outnumbered “mountain Mormons” in parts of the country, especially Missouri, Iowa, and Michigan. I grew up in Flint, Michigan, and attended the RLDS-sponsored Graceland College in […]
[…] as members of the house of Israel brought out of bondage in Egypt (Mos. 12:34). Alma 56:3 de scribes two thousand stripling warriors as “descendants of Laman.” In 3 Nephi 15-17, Jesus addresses an […]
[…] like reading my own social security number. I caught the No. 59 downtown, near Hole-in-the-Road. At the city’s buzzing hub, top-heavy red and beige double-decker buses jostled like groggy circus animals, waiting to pick […]
[…] it mean that God “used” evolution tocreate life’s diversity? Was this a choice for God among other al-ternatives? Do Wildman’s pessimistic conclusions hold for Mor-monism? Does evolution imply a noninterventionist Deity? Arethere more optimistic […]
[…] 2020, https://www.thechurchnews.com/. US LDS leadership models often conflicted with Latin American leadership models. Researchers Cooper and Hernández de Olarte have explored how LDS bureaucratic and hierarchical structure functions in these contexts. In Mexico, and […]
[…] three installments of the Age of Reason in France, but he published the third in New York City, and compendium editions were reprinted there too into the 1820s. Matthew 27:51b–53 was among the numerous […]
[…] the Eight. As the only Book of Mormon witness communicating with the dissenters, Harris had become the de facto spokesman for the others. The irony, of course, is that of the eleven men in […]
[…] God and his children by officiating in sacred rituals. In the temple, women are thus functioning as de facto priestesses without what we (perhaps incorrectly?) consider a necessity—ordination. Should this oversight be corrected? Since […]
When Dennis Cormier arrived on the fifteenth floor of the Church Office Building in downtown Salt Lake City, his first appointment was already waiting. The visitor was fleshy, jowls and hips, about Dennis’ age, […]
[…] sophisticated irony that comes from “glossing” a deadly serious situation (Pratt has just broke jail at Colombia, Missouri) in highly rhetorical terms; and the leisurely sense of the value of style for its own […]