[…] let us know that we had committed one of the greatest sins a people could commit in breaking away from the Church and claiming plural marriage to be a great saving principle. (1:342) Apparently […]
[…] and advantages, of serving in Utah than in the nation’s capitol. During the Cold War years following World War II the majority of general officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints […]
<i>Dialogue 28.3 (Fall 1995): 1–12</i><br>As American feminist thinkers and organizers, we’ve walked a long road since then, a road that has led us farther and farther away from religious discourse and Christian justification. Our […]
[…] more by the innocent frankness of his testimony than by the idea. As a member of the American diplomatic service, I and my family too have traveled a fair amount, living in five different […]
[…] dressing near a window: wearing my mod Americanism loudly instead of keeping it covered. In my husband’s world, our interests, the details about our lives, belong to our families and are for their eyes […]
[…] Latter-day Saints (usually called Mormon or LDS church) is having enormous success in most parts of the world. Growth is particularly impressive in Latin America. In 1971 there were only 217,500 LDS members on […]
“Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes In October of 1993 Dallin H. Oaks, an apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of […]
[…] womanhood. Underneath contrived plot lines and lofty language, Mormon women’s fiction reveals how its authors understood the world and their place in it. Their work, however stylistically immature, emerges as a valuable source for […]
[…] Eden, their disobedience and consequent expulsion from that blissful abode, their condition in the lone and dreary world when doomed to live by labor and sweat, the plan of redemption by which the great […]
[…] known that early Christian theologians were heavily influenced by Greek Platonic philosophy, which viewed qualities of this world as mere shadows of “ideals” that exist in an unseen world. Thus even by 413 C.E., […]