[…] Moloney had asked me to interview her. I read “The Quaker Peace Testimony” (this issue) in preparation for that interview. Diana and I met on August 25, 2003, to discuss her essay. I had […]
9/11. For seeming forever, a call for help. Since 2001 a blast of grief swallowed like debris from the heap of rubble and human remains on the streets of Manhattan, of the New York […]
[…] Arminians weaken the doctrine even further by asserting that, although God’s will influences us and is necessary for our ability to act, it does not determine what we will do. Nevertheless, according to the […]
The 1960s marked for Latter-day Saints the commencement of a new era of consolidation and growth that have led to multiple changes in the Relief Society. The organization experienced the automatic enrollment of women […]
[…] you like alliterative (and gender-biased) triads—there seems to be no story, only routine and habit (and, alas for these latter latter days, the culture of the planner); I’ve thought of trying an essay titled […]
[…] devoted to a life of contemplation and simplicity. Her book An Accidental Monk, about her domestic search for God, was published by St. Anthony Messenger Press in 1976. Her articles, essays, fiction, and reviews […]
[…] Utah’s representative in Congress in 1898. He was a practicing polygamist who had served time in prison for violating federal anti-polygamy statutes, and he was a member of the Church’s First Council of the […]
[…] A. H. (“Bud”) Edwards, rose to offer a substitute to a motion on the floor which called for the First Presidency to appoint women to Church committees more in proportion to their numbers in […]
[…] can occur entirely outside the ghetto of wholly Mormon venues, that time has not yet come. Furthermore, for certain topics I don’t think that it will ever come. That being the case, I care […]
[…] categories. In essence, a parental and/or medical decision at birth determined if the child would be eligible for priesthood ordination. How should Mormon theology and practice take intersex people into account as God’s children? […]