[…] the best person she can, as she senses her children using her as a model. A man’s world, for the most part, necessitates personal ambition and drive, a need for success, sometimes at the […]
[…] voluntary movement,” groups that “institutionalized the idea that women’s pious influence . . . could reform the world.” Since these women were already mobilized on behalf of the poor, the drunk, the fallen, the […]
[…] the first time such radical ideas as: matter and spirit can neither be created nor annihilated; the world was not created ex nihilo but organized out of existing matter; and God is bound by […]
[…] FBI under cover agents reporting back to J. Edgar Hoover on the terrible continuing threat of the world-wide communist (read: Mormon) conspiracy. Yet the Tanners have been more than simply gadflies; in curious and […]
[…] do in the cave. If there is anything different about it in Utah, it may be that breaking away is strongly qualified. For young men particularly, going on a mission is the first point […]
[…] the sister who had spoken in tongues, and who had just returned from a mission to the world, and he arose in the meeting and cursed the bishop in the name of the Lord. […]
[…] of territorial legislation enfranchising Utah’s women in 1870, almost fifty years before the Nineteenth Amendment extended the vote to American women, arguments erupted between the Mormon and non-Mormon community over the reasons behind this legislation.
[…] by which God will judge us; and therefore is, and shall remain to the end of the world, the true centre of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, […]
[…] heading for Kenneth Woodward’s Newsweek article declares: Mormonism “is looking more Christian. But it’s still a different world.” The invisible difference consists of certain Mormon beliefs—what the Economist calls “startling departures from Christian orthodoxy.” […]
[…] that political solutions to problems such as those he faced in the GDR were generally ineffective—that the world changed only when individuals changed. President Kimball said, “If you want to see a change in […]