[…] Mormon Image Many scholars of Mormonism note that Mormon images in the popular American media have shifted over time. In Jan Shipps’s memorable phrase, the Mormon has gone from “satyr to saint.” As Mormon […]
[…] looked away, pressing into her narrow seat, lightly scratching out letters of the alphabet on the fabric over Sam’s back. She rocked him, whispering, “There, there, my baby, there, there.” For the rest of […]
[…] power of literature to influence our conduct in deeply meaningful ways, has been under as sault for over two hundred years. With the advent of modernism in poetry, painting, and fiction came a new […]
[…] was great sorrow in the chapel. But, as the years passed, his death became an abstraction. Now, over three decades later, after witnessing a fair amount of human suffering and death, both through personal […]
[…] 14:6, 23:25). “Torah of Moses” most likely refers to the book of Deuteronomy throughout these citations. But over time the designation came to represent all pentateuchal literature. Thus when Ezra, the scribe, returns from […]
[…] school and part-time faculty member, is concerned with a legal trend that favors the rights of individuals over family stability. This trend includes liberalization of divorce, non-enforcement of laws prohibiting some types of sexual […]
Mormons believe that forerunners prepared the way for the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ in the latter days. This paper examines a special set of those forerunners, namely, the progenitors of the […]
<i>Dialogue 33. 3 (Fall 2000): 137–151</i><br> Rees’s Fall 2000 artice is titled “”In a Dark Time the Eye Begins to See”: Personal Reflections on Homosexuality among the Mormons at the Beginning of a New […]
[…] millions of potential readers. This particular and somewhat older book, however, is of importance to Mormon scholarship over and above the issue of language access, for a couple of reasons: 1. German is an […]
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