[…] practice, and the early years in this period represented resistance to the modern influences already expressed in the design of the Canadian and Hawaiian Temples. By the 1930s essential functional patterns of Latter-day Saint worship […]
[…] opposite-sex attraction (with all of its accompanying impulses for pair bonding) exists innately in most of the human population but that its private expression and the conditions under which that expression may be socially […]
[…] some over others, that his respect is equal, not conditional or partial, and does not vary, as human respect does, according to irrelevant matters: race, gender, creed, intelligence, politics, wealth, sexual orientation. The apostle […]
[…] Apocrypha, I summarized existing genetic research into Native American origins, concluding, “While DNA shows that ultimately all human populations are closely related, to date no intimate genetic link has been found between ancient Israelites […]
[…] task of identifying God’s word to the ancients and the meanings infused into these texts by inspired human authors of scripture. This method ideally combines the exacting canons and tools of responsible philology with […]
[…] care to trauma survivors; instead, it is a lens that can allow us all to see the humanity and the history of the individuals, groups, and cultural traditions surrounding us. The trauma-informed lens can […]
[…] the vandalism of a few…” Henry David Thoreau 1 One could talk or write about environment and human effects on it at several scales from, for example, just cleaning up the place to mass […]
[…] reproduction can be particularly unclear. At issue is determining exactly what is meant by the belief that human beings are a “spirit son or daughter of Heavenly Parents.” For instance, in a recent essay […]
[…] was one of the so-called Noachid precepts, binding on all the descendants of Noah—that is, on all humanity.” Others have argued that the biblical prohibitions do not apply to individuals who live together in […]
[…] the terms “earth” and “world”: “earth” was the planet upon which we live, “world” referred to “the human family.” One also finds that Joseph did not, in his sermons, utilize these definitions consistently. The […]