[…] did so in protest. The symposium had become a center point in the growing battle between Latter -day Saint leaders and activists, especially as Church authorities grew increasingly outspoken in denouncing what Dallin Oaks […]
[…] between the Catholic example Gould considers and the way that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints responds to similar difficulties are instructive. As the Latter–day Saint intellectual community responded to the […]
[…] Toscano, and Lynne Kanavel Whitesides were disfellowshipped or excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints. While these six people’s lives were being upturned via Church discipline, the great drama in […]
I was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints on September 25, 1993, almost immediately after Lavina Fielding Anderson was forced out of it. Her stake disciplinary council had convened […]
In September 1993, six people were excommunicated or disfellowshipped from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints. The events were widely covered in news media. Lynne Kanavel Whitesides, Avraham Gileadi, Paul Toscano, […]
[…] life with nothing? Forced to ask ourselves this question in the first two chapters of this genre -bending, disturbing novel—John Bennion’s most complex yet—we get, early on, a glimpse of what he’s up to: […]
The ten essays in this volume were brought together to facilitate engagement between scholars of “early Mormonism and early American religious and literary history” (ix). With a designedly inter- or transdisciplinary ambition, Envisioning Scripture assembles […]
Growing up in the 1990s in a strong Mormon household, I learned that my religion had its own Index Librorum Prohibitorum. It was not published for the faithful to see but transmitted orally, through […]
[…] source of suffering for most people is the experience of isolation and that healing occurs in growth -fostering connection. Judith V. Jordan “For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all […]
[…] Valley sat in front of the crowd on the rostrum. Behind them was the organ. Its gold -colored pipes spanned the back wall, perfectly symmetrical from top to bottom. During the day, sunlight streamed […]