[…] as the Shakers, the group established a community a few miles from Smith’s birthplace in Vermont (Arrington, Fox, and May 1976, 20). Mother Ann Lee’s celibate society was the first communitarian organization of its […]
[…] responsibility for choice and resist the temptation to abandon oneself to the depersonalization of the mass. To live authentically we must accept our own possibilities and our own uniquely differentiated futures. In addition, authentic […]
<i>Dialogue 24.3 (Fall 1991): 43–57</i><br> Before the Manifesto was first read in conference, members and church leaders fully believed in plural marriage as being a commandment from God. Once the Manifesto was read, over […]
[…] don’t need you to tell me what I should be doing.” But when he doesn’t call, I am not really surprised. For Mother’s Day I fix Mom dinner and give her a present—a box […]
[…] Wood, Joseph Smith Begins His Work: The Book of Mormon 1830 First Edition (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1963), 397. Beulah Stauffer Hostetler, American Mennonites and Protestant Movements (Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press, 1987). See […]
I am neither a scholar of the Hebrew Bible nor a theologian, yet very occasionally some unsuspecting soul asks me to preach or speak about the Bible. In 1994 I substituted one Sunday for […]
[…] are sent to all stake presidents and bishops. Brief reports are also published in the weekly Church News which is sent to thousands of subscribers worldwide. Finally, video tapes of conference are sent to […]
It’s not easy to motivate two thousand people, about evenly divided among high school students, young parents, and older citizens, to march a mile up a steep hill to listen to speakers on an […]
[…] in fact emerge out of the ashes of the old. I would like to think that I am a phoenix. But the operative word here is “new.” In some ways the past three years […]
[…] often bewildering events of my life, I have found both understanding and healing in the journey. I am deeply sorry I didn’t make the discovery until graduate school—a discovery that many students may not […]