[…] concluded that the principle of plural marriage must have been revealed to Joseph Smith in 1831 (Deseret News, May 20,1886). In the December 8,1831, Ohio Star, Ezra Booth wrote of a Mormon revelation to […]
[…] which no Latter-day Saint should descend as long as others are living in abundance.” In a Church News article only a little more than a year ago, President Hinckley declared, “I hope the Church […]
[…] being, a certain kind of time and space, which is not easy to come by in a world that doesn’t suffer from an excess of the sacred. One reason I got interested in free […]
[…] commentary posted online by readers of a balanced and thoughtful report by Carrie Moore of the Deseret News concerning the forthcoming volume (“Book Confronts LDS Tragedy,” July 19, 2008). Since the volume had not yet […]
[…] a great pioneer or something,” Tregan said. “My dad said with all these Mormon fundamentalists in the news and that one guy being put on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, the city didn’t want […]
[…] fruit they bear—which they could not bear alone.” In this regard, the late Eugene England, professor of English at Brigham Young University, taught, “Tragedy does not have to do with presence or lack of […]
[…] a Muslim family; she was baptised on May 5, 1961. Moreover, in 1962, the local newspaper Torres News reported that subsequent Mormon missionaries were received with traditional dances before they began to proselyte. Previous […]
[…] shift in being that ruptures—and in the process demands revision of—Self-, world-, and/or Other-consciousness. Seeking to share her friend’s burden by inviting readers to experience and think deeply about a moment of loss […]
[…] This term, coined by Harvey Cox, expresses (in “secular”) a “this worldness”—meaning that the work of the world must be done by man himself, and (in “city”) all historical and Utopian dreams for the […]
[…] observed that Mormons “. . . are clannish and well ordered,” and thus have difficulty in “ breaking away or non-conforming, even if they want to.” This suggestion of backwardness in social change illuminates […]