[…] tide . . . an exhilarating sense of discovery, a utopian hope that women might change the world.” Laurel Thatcher Ulrich With the recent momentous reduction of the minimum age for female missionaries, the […]
[…] Radical Novelty of “Christ”: A Hermeneutic Proposition When the Book of Mormon was first published to the world, much was made of its doctrinal congruence with the Bible. On one point, however, it was […]
[…] knows of our loneliness and longing and sorrows over our broken hearts and weeps over our broken world, wouldn’t she (doesn’t she?) at least equally do the same? If faith and reason tell us […]
[…] knows of our loneliness and longing and sorrows over our broken hearts and weeps over our broken world, wouldn’t she (doesn’t she?) at least equally do the same? If faith and reason tell us […]
[…] names, names, and legitimacy in the Latter-day Saint context extends back to the early history of the World Wide Web. In this section, I show how the development of lds.org and mormon.org illustrate this […]
[…] early phases of what is going to become known as the Book of Mormon Wars. Act III: Breaking Past Apologetics As I mentioned, apologetics is really heating up, with two major camps. One who […]
[…] special in purpose.” Ancient Greece and Greek Settlements Writing on metal is abundantly attested in the Greek world. In fact, more inscriptions of continuous text are extant from Greece and Greek colonies than from […]
[…] once directed by an organization — the Council of Fifty — and an aspiration — imminent theocratic world government — which contemporary Mormons have scarcely heard of. Britton argues that Mormons in general were […]
[…] He always denied the same to friend and foe alike, but they would not believe him. The world claimed that he stole one Solomon Spaulding’s manuscript and from that concocted out of the said […]
[…] the other way around, the adaptation of the doctrines and practices of the Mormons to the secular world in which they live. Several events of intellectual importance have taken place during these 72 years. […]