[…] was a favorite, a paraphrase of I Corinthians 1:27: “God has chosen the weak things of this world to confound the wise” (Gregg 1890, 37). Perhaps Harris saw something of himself in the passage. […]
[…] this assignment. In truth, most of the men were happy to go since digging gold was back- breaking work, and they had also experienced much sickness in recent months. “The turn of things was […]
[…] story,” I would say, begging him to take me along the beam of his voice into a world that seemed more brightly colored and richly textured than the rose-carpeted room in which we sat, […]
[…] personal salvation through Jesus Christ, the divinity of Christ, and the importance of being separate from the world. Baptist, Church of Christ, Evangelical, and Pentecostal denominations were classified as conservatives; their means ranged from […]
[…] as though they were connected, even though I know they aren’t. They were separated not merely by worlds, but by lifetimes. Maggie was off-road Missouri, small-town Utah, through and through. Maggie was the past. […]
[…] execrable than the rationales of the Right because It is not poised on the leading edge of world takeover – and if it were, would still be nearer my God than thee. Because conservatism allows […]
[…] embrace it. And thus we hate to see members off on tangents alien to most of the world because we know that our primary responsibility is to show others just what God’s plan of […]
[…] environments shape the way Latter-day Saints understand their common religion. The first part of the book, “Other Worlds,” sets Mormonism in science-fiction contexts, always asking, “what would the Church be like in a different […]
[…] of the Interior carry intrinsic interest and give rise to thought-provoking interpretations of and insights into the American West’s past and present. Enormously important in the shaping of the American West, federal employees have […]
[…] 1630-1965 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). She also co-edited a collection of essays about Mormonism in the Pacific World, Proclamation to the People: Nineteenth-Century Mormonism and the Pacific Basin Frontier, with Reid Neilson (University of Utah press, […]