[…] one hand, and wanting to be accepted as a Christian religion on the other. But the Church today, especially in Europe, is surrounded more and more by secular philosophies. Converts come from different paradigms […]
[…] all who may enquire after me.” The June letter (at least) probably arrived well after Conrad had news of Barnes’s death in England. Grant’s letter of August 17 is carefully written so that identities […]
[…] me to be my duty to my God . . . they are welcome to it” (Deseret News, 15 July 1885), seemed to believe very sincerely that the anti-polygamous law, in spite of the […]
[…] made obvious by a glaring absence in official histories and sermons, of the Church’s attention to it today. But Mormon polygamy, I now realize, has implications beyond a narrow concern with nineteenth-century Mormon domestic […]
[…] policy was changed. Women have, since then, been allowed to pray in any meeting they attend (Deseret News, 29 Sept. 1978; Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sept. 1978). Thus, the LDS Church has rejected scripturally-based […]
[…] to the Salt Lake Valley could not possibly seem as unique as it does to many Mormons today; nor would a swarm of crickets be likely to overly impress a mind that had been […]
[…] Christ of Latter-day Saints. In recent months long articles on the Church have appeared in leading national newspapers and magazines. The Latter-day Saints and The Mormon Establishment are two important books which have been […]
[…] did not claim that the Fifth Republic accorded political freedom. Certainly there are grave problems affecting America today, and we are not solving them as fast as a nation of our wealth and efficiency […]
[…] to above and says we must either believe that Moses wrote the Pentateuch as we have it today, or that Moses didn’t have anything to do with writing it, that it was solely the […]
[…] Hukilau Beach and didn’t invite Liz. I didn’t even tell her about it until it was old news, until my beautiful, azureeyed husband was terminal. Liz never met him. The week of his funeral, […]