[…] enforcement is needed, not American hegemony or Gandhian global politics, but rather “a vision of an international community that fundamentally relies on consent and the cooperative power it creates but nevertheless reserves the right […]
[…] often called Friends, have several core “testimonies” that can be remembered by the mnemonic “SPICE”—Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, and Equality. Each of these interrelated testimonies is essential to our identity as Friends, but we […]
[…] Rosetta Stone or some other incontestably identifiable artifact to remove any possible doubt as to the book’s di vine origin. Its truth could have been established as simply as “two plus two equals four.” […]
[…] six sheep over there eating us out of house and home, and we got a fistful of black curly hides drying hard in the barn, and we got two kids in the house breaking […]
[…] Andrew Jenson, Assistant Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1938), 569; see also Andrew Jenson, Conference Report, April 1923, 78-81. Mark L Grover, “The […]
[…] a system in which authority is at once hierarchically structured and widely, even democratically, distributed among a di verse array of offices open to an ever-increasing percentage of male Saints. This diversification brings to […]
[…] world for two years under the Church’s flag. You have to join that army of boys with black nametags and ties. And when you go out into the world to preach the gospel, you […]
[…] the ambler, hoping he will walk over to the man. But he ambles right on by the black heap in the grass. I say to myself, “The man is just drunk.” But saying, “just […]
[…] “amidst the matrix of trickery”? A “distinctive feature of general Mormon culture,” Davies alleges, is that “the di viner is only a hair’s breadth away from the false prophet, the sincere person from the […]
Valerie Atkisson, Notation in Time
Kent Christensen, Salt Water Jetty
Jon Moe, Manhattan New York Temple
Kah Leong Poon, Christmas in Central Park