[…] new LDS art from around the globe. Similarly, the Church’s Media Library has many wonderful images and videos. The Come, Follow Me manuals for each course of study include many artworks. The BYU Museum […]
[…] into the home or community, making note of how the hospitality is exercised, what motivates it, what role it plays in the Book of Mormon narrative, and what spiritual or religious dimensions it is assigned.
[…] it obligatory for the faithful to validate every writing which Joseph Smith presented to them ex cathedra? Today, learned specialists in the Church are confidently employing their science to verify the far reaches of […]
[…] their religious beliefs; their marital experiences were similar to the experiences of both their LDS and non-LDS American monogamous counterparts. Mormons, both monogamous and polygamous, seem simply to have adapted the Victorian ideology evident […]
[…] a fire” (4). Sottile never forgot the story. She followed the girl’s life as she appeared in news stories—first as a teenager raising money for animal shelters in nearby Post Falls and then as […]
[…] new converts, two groups that have always been a concern for the Church. Fortunately, many young people today are increasingly aware of racial issues and the importance of promoting equality and social justice. They […]
[…] 1988): 73–85
I used to love this description because my Mormon heaven seemed far superior to this st andard Christian heaven that Twain’s Satan describes. Sexual intercourse does have a place in Mormon heaven, though […]
[…] Friedan, Kate Millet, Rodney Turner and the latest Relief Society lessons; about birth control, working women, church politics and homosexuality; about things we knew well, like housework, and about things we knew not at […]
[…] These conversion narratives exhibit remarkable similarity in language. The rhetoric of conversion was based on a common stock of words, phrases (some biblical), and themes. Moreover, women like Zina Huntington had been immersed in […]
Dialogue 18.2 (Summer 1985): 92–113During the last twenty-five years, Reorganized Latter Day Saints have struggled to discover what it means to be the body of Christ in the modern world.