A beautiful interview wherein Christensen said “If we look at an organization being a circle, there are a lot of people who are trying really, really hard to stay right there, just on the edge.…
[…] as essential for children as we’ve been led to believe. What’s worse, perhaps? If the policy rob-bing Black saints of the blessings of the priesthood is any indication, the harm done by post-hoc theories […]
[…] elements that were anathema to that Christianity, including Masonic elements. (A possible parallel is how some American blacks have rejected ”white” Christianity for ” alien” Islam.) With such an understanding of the interaction of […]
[…] female role is that of a non-wage-earning wife and mother in a nuclear family where the husband is the provider and the woman’s energies are directed toward her family, the Church, and perhaps community service.
At the Crossroads, Again: Mormon and Protestant Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Century was a conference held February 24 and 25. If you missed it live, you can still enjoy video presentations from Christopher Jones, David Campbell, David McAllister-Wilson, Eileen Guenther, Terryl Givens, Kathleen Flake, Elaine Heath, Robert Bennett, and Warner Woodworth, and more. Plus watch Dialogue Editor Kristine Haglund accompany the conference in some Mormon hymns.
Watch Laurie Maffly-Kipp, a professor and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, present a lecture entitled, “The Long Approach to the Mormon Moment: The Building of an American Church” in St. Louis. Click in to view.
[…] Fielding Anderson analyzed President Ezra Taft Benson’s landmark address “To the Mothers in Zion” (highlighted in the news articles above) in “A Voice from the Past: The Benson Instructions for Parents.” She explains “Basically, […]