3 September 1984 Today my youngest child went to school all day for the first time. Every mother approaches this milestone with both anticipation and dread. I reached this point once before, six years […]
Thoreau wrote in the beginning of Walden, “I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.” […]
[…] which the only thing keeping us and the reds from totally destroy ing each other is the mutual fear of total destruction from the other. I remember the disillusion and disbelief I felt as […]
<i>Dialogue 23.4 (Winter 1990): 47–82</i><br>In this essay, I will analyze recent Church discourse against a pattern of constricting employment options for women and will discuss the implications of that pattern.
[…] because of my religion. Well informed about LDS beliefs, he answered not a word. Intelligence Uncreated Most world religions, including traditional Christianity, begin with the idea that God existed alone. He then created all […]
[…] This scene is typical of many that take place each month in Latter-day Saint homes throughout the world. While LDS publications describe growth in millions, what is significant about that growth is the individuals […]
[…] if a body rejects an artificial heart. Is it the heart’s fault, or the body’s, or a mutual incompatibility? For Harrison, was it a case of personal self-delusion or was it an institutional failure […]
[…] (1840), eternal marriage (1841), and eternal proxy marriage (1842). These ordinances, and the doctrine underpinning them, united Smith’s beliefs in obedience to divine law, the importance of mortality, and the eternal nature of the family.
Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have engaged in missionary work since the year of the religion’s founding. But sociological research on the experience of these missionaries is still young […]
[…] had barely sent the youngest of their two daughters off to first grade when she got the news and wept all weekend. And Latham had once owned a noisy little Yamaha back in the […]