[…] Bible, but it ignores the centuries required for the Old and New Testaments to achieve canonical status. Breaking with tradition of the 1850s and 1860s, the contemporary church canonizes within days, and recently without […]
[…] brethren they would live to see the Savior and would participate in the great work of the world’s closing scenes. And Apostle John Henry Smith, less than ten days before the Manifesto, told a […]
[…] depressed, high and low, in rapidly alternating cycles, depending upon the news from a part of the world that scarcely occupied a moment’s attention before last year. Many of us also found ourselves dwelling […]
[…] December 1917: “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the most democratic institution in the world” (100). Although some subsequently have taken the position that he did not mean what he said […]
[…] heard this one before? Probably not: Mormonism is continually spooked by the mere idea of an outside world, though our perception of it predicates our very sense of community. Once upon a time, when […]
[…] 265 million by 2080 and believes that Mormonism is on its way to becoming the next major world religion. In view of these rising numbers, official LDS rhetoric has been increasingly recognized (both praised […]
[…] “Thus opened creation, and the womb of everlasting motherhood throbbed with divine ecstacy.” Tullidge credits Eve for breaking one commandment to fulfill another. The Mormon daughters of Eve must also break the rules to […]
[…] itself has no philosophy about the modus operandi employed by the Lord in His creation of the world.” Then in 1913, in a conference address in Arizona, President Smith added another interesting comment to […]
[…] an assignment with the Community of Christ-sponsore WorldService Corps in summer 2000, that I was first struck by the enormity of the world’s problems and the horrifying conditions faced by the majority of its inhabiants.
[…] Ally said, “And he gave it all up to work in a factory fourteen hours a day breaking up steel, seven days a week, giving his wages to Grandpa so there’d be firewood come […]