[…] While overtly complementary, this discourse is profoundly problematic when applied to Mor mons, just as it is for Asian-Americans. Each term of the phrase “model minority discourse” is important. Our use of the term […]
[…] were waiting to hear an address by a scholar who had been disciplined at the church university for doing little else than telling truths about LDS history, truths that had been deemed inconvenient by […]
Is There Cause for Concern? Since mid-century, dramatic changes in family demographics have characterized patterns of parenthood and sexual partnerships in America. As age at marriage has increased, the age at initiation of sexual […]
[…] 631 pages, the book is packed with useful and well-documented details. It pro vides many helpful features for the reader interested in the complex history of LDS missions in Asia, including maps, extensive bibliographies, and […]
[…] road in four or five lanes, avoiding potholes, sometimes even going into oncoming traffic. Instead of stopping for pedestrians, the cars speed up and honk five or six times. Hoards of people are always […]
[…] Uruguayan government. People said that during the 1980s it had been a museum and a nice place for a Sunday afternoon picnic, but by the time Elder Hubble and I got there, the museum […]
[…] the book and far fewer who might be guided to it by an English language review, whereas for a book like Mormon America, there are millions of potential readers. This particular and somewhat older […]
[…] an inestimable acquisition to our present scriptures, fulfilling, in a small degree the word of the prophet: For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the […]
[…] 1831 Joseph Smith announced another revelation that Missouri “is the land which I have appointed and consecrated for the gathering of the saints. Wherefore, this is the land of promise, and the place for […]
[…] of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began with a mission to restore the ancient church, but not for everyone at the same time. In its earliest days, the church was preoccupied with its mission […]