[…] looking back, will readily testify. On the other hand, in the challenging real (as opposed to “ideal”) world, children are often reared successfully in “irregular” situations and always have been. The significant variable is […]
I am happy to pay tribute to Gene England, a vivid and significant twentieth-century intellectual of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Gene influenced many Mormons with his rigorous ethics, his lived […]
[…] sight—a hardy community of desert cactuses and shrubs. Together, the unique plants, animals, and ecosystems across the world contribute to the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity Is an Inherently Spiritual Concept […]
[…] become a modern global religion, to the twenty-first century, where it has the promise of becoming a world religion. I believe that what the Church, its leaders, and its members can learn from the […]
[…] find parallels between almost any two cultures by chance. Furthermore, missionaries now teach in much of the world, and knowledge of different cultures has grown dramatically, but any credible “found tribe” story has yet […]
[…] He proposed that rocks fall downward when dropped because of their nature. After all, everything in the world was made up of four elements: earth, air, water, and fire. A rock, made of earth, […]
[…] that early Mormons found refuge without violence or conflict. This folktale is untrue. Although convinced of Native American’s ancient Lamanite ancestry, Mormon pioneers inhabited foreign land that did not belong to them and massacred […]
[…] demanded action. A bold move was necessary, and it was my job to execute it. Lara was breaking unspoken rules. She craved an equal voice with her husband, but no one wanted to give […]
[…] documents such as the 1909 First Presidency statement and the 1995 “The Family: A Proclamation to the World.” Unlike the traditional Christian interpretation of gendered terminology relating to God as metaphorical, Mormons interpret gendered […]
[…] deviants like Jesuits, Quakers, and Enthusiasts by labeling them vagabonds and disorderly persons, then penalizing them for breaking vagrancy law. Skeptical witchcraft legislation continued to be developed in the American colonies and then the […]