[…] restrained than non-Mormons. And Negative Accompaniments are Greater Mormon sex norms are among the strictest in the world, sometimes even placing unchastity next to murder. Not unexpectedly, then, the Intermountain respondents who had engaged […]
[…] object can be subsumed under the broader paradigm of myth/history. Only occasionally in Western thought have the worlds of rational, linear, thought and of relational, intuitive or imaginative insight been brought consciously together in […]
[…] from Monte McLaws’ doctoral dissertation, Spokesman for the Kingdom is a terse, well-researched biography of the Deseret News and Mormon journalism from 1830 to 1898. The book is thematically organized around the topics of […]
[…] Martha, who had been “afraid to die. Not afraid of the afterward . . . but of breaking off. In all breaking away there is agony, and Martha had loved to live” (p. 21). […]
[…] that the individual spirit of man existed in the presence of God before the creation of the world is unique in modern Christianity. Mormons have rejected the Creator/creature dichotomy of Patristic theology and its […]
[…] worked. (He doesn’t say which J. W. translation he used but the one I’m aware of, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures , is translated from the “original languages, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.”) He […]
[…] the death penalty on him self, disaster will overtake anyone killing a mocking bird, and a person breaking an owl’s wings must himself suffer broken limbs, a Utah variant of the well known penalty for […]
[…] frustrated many of the long-time members. Change has been rapid; growth, phenomenal. The Church’s goal of becoming worldwide—integrating peoples of diverse languages and cultures into its structure—has been tested on the Church’s home ground. […]
[…] a scene then while somersaulting off a roof (8). Eve laments the “delicious bite” that invoked the world in which she finds Abel dead (11). The poet imagines pausing the world, halting people in […]
[…] than a dozen books on Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) history and the American West. His best known work is his book Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the […]