Mormon Women in the Ministry
April 28, 2020[…] a disciple and follower of Jesus. My ordination has enhanced my understanding of Jesus’ message of good news to the poor and downtrodden. My ordination has taken me down a path of learning to […]
[…] a disciple and follower of Jesus. My ordination has enhanced my understanding of Jesus’ message of good news to the poor and downtrodden. My ordination has taken me down a path of learning to […]
[…] passion for honesty. They are scrutinizing centuries-old suppositions and re-examining current attitudes and goals. In the Protestant world, the writings of Bultmann, Bonhoeffer, Tillich, and of the Bishop of Woolwich are evidence of this […]
[…] ages of drama grew, independently, out of religious ritual.” Indeed they did, but in the case of English drama, the only kind I feel qualified to discuss, the art left the Church and assumed […]
[…] Christ of Latter-day Saints. In recent months long articles on the Church have appeared in leading national newspapers and magazines. The Latter-day Saints and The Mormon Establishment are two important books which have been […]
[…] be the last straw for Melissa, but he was the one. She had already endured beyond her breaking point. The mud, the wind. Anomie. Isolation. Death came to her as a natural consequence, a […]
[…] exhausted, often frustrated, but she never once wondered if it was worth it. Of course maybe the world just seemed more hopeful then. Last year an old boyfriend, Mark, who had just turned thirty-five, […]
[…] the bathroom. Middlemarch. In school I never had time to read Middlemarch even though I was an English major. Now I run herd on ESL kids from 9 to 4 and our own kids […]
[…] his writing. Here he stored back issues of Look, Life, National Geographic, Time, and the Utah Deseret News; here also were samples of rocks and ore he had collected during his prospecting days in the […]
[…] in Utah, at least in the part of Utah that I had to return to. I couldn’t share an apartment with another man’s wife in Logan. Our neighbors would be scandalized. My parents would […]
[…] for some obscure state agency) and like me, he had graduated from UC Davis. In fact, Jorge shared that he had been baptized as a teenager down in SoCal, but had gone inactive shortly […]