[…] “private scholarship” from her mother’s good friend. The next year she enrolled in the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, a small private school that had been founded in the 1840’s as an “experiment […]
[…] mind in all its variety and who wish to respond to their Mormon heritage in the context of human experience as a whole. We believe there are many in the Mormon community and in other […]
[…] unwieldy and mysterious narrative. In some ways, this struggle becomes a meta-discourse on how to fit the human into the domineering narrative of the divine; and what I find is that for a lyrical […]
[…] sense of epistemological limitation has come down, and in its place only a postmodern veil separates the human from the divine and this life from the afterlife. This veil is easily parted, allowing for […]
[…] what post-modern thought has focused on as “alterity” and explored as a central element of all our human experience and constructions, including language, one which often leads to anxiety, oppression, even violence, but conscious […]
[…] almost all mortals—by “the arm of flesh.” The Liahona is convinced by logic and experience that no human instrument, even a prophet, is capable of transmitting the word of God so clearly and comprehensively […]
[…] Key Mormon leaders experienced what Michael Walzer has called the “ideology of transition,” where heightened awareness of human needs arises “whenever traditional controls give way and hierarchical status and corporate privileges are called into […]
[…] that defines the Latter-day Saint. For this reason, Light of the World encoded the journey of the human, not as a simple picaresque, but as a plan, or plot, driven on high by the […]
[…] most up-to-date in the world. Nothing now remained but heaps of rubble and a stench of decaying human flesh. —On the Holocaust of Baghdad (1258 C.E.) perpetrated by Hulagu Kahn The complexity of our war […]
[…] poetry in that lyrics were accompanied by music, the art of tone. Instrumentation was not required; the human voice could produce music. Poetry was distinct from prose in that poetry utilized the sound of […]