[…] list of recent works will notice that a high proportion of the reviewed literature concerns the ” World Church.” From India to England, Tin Can Island to Finland, South Africa to Central America the […]
[…] restrained than non-Mormons. And Negative Accompaniments are Greater Mormon sex norms are among the strictest in the world, sometimes even placing unchastity next to murder. Not unexpectedly, then, the Intermountain respondents who had engaged […]
[…] from Monte McLaws’ doctoral dissertation, Spokesman for the Kingdom is a terse, well-researched biography of the Deseret News and Mormon journalism from 1830 to 1898. The book is thematically organized around the topics of […]
[…] promise of “getting it all together.” Man is perceived to have pre-existed this life in the spirit world; but since there are experiences which are not available to a pure spirit form (physical pain, […]
[…] the pioneers were crossing the plains, a man by the name of William McCary, who had Native American and African American ancestry, caused a lot of grief and trouble for both saints and the […]
[…] Martha, who had been “afraid to die. Not afraid of the afterward . . . but of breaking off. In all breaking away there is agony, and Martha had loved to live” (p. 21). […]
[…] that the individual spirit of man existed in the presence of God before the creation of the world is unique in modern Christianity. Mormons have rejected the Creator/creature dichotomy of Patristic theology and its […]
[…] worked. (He doesn’t say which J. W. translation he used but the one I’m aware of, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures , is translated from the “original languages, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.”) He […]
[…] the death penalty on him self, disaster will overtake anyone killing a mocking bird, and a person breaking an owl’s wings must himself suffer broken limbs, a Utah variant of the well known penalty for […]
[…] victims of some other tragedy. They might just be confused youngsters, fighting to make sense of a world that seems cruel and unfeeling. Joining a strange Church is not a risk simply because these […]