[…] their homes. The prospect of a new life in a land of freedom, far from the unstable politics of a Europe constantly teetering on the edge of armed conflict, appealed to Church members as […]
[…] are only various stake and mission presidents and regional representatives, each with limited jurisdiction. When a major news story with religious implications breaks, as, for example, the Rushdie affair, the death of a pope, […]
[…] work, therefore, because of a death or divorce or because one income is simply not sufficient in today’s expensive world, she should be given enormous amounts of emotional support because she is taking on […]
“Liberal spirituality” is the title and theme of this essay. A double entendre is intended—suggesting the interdependence of a free and abundant spiritual life. My aim is to explore the nature and possibilities of […]
<i>Dialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 197–230</i><br>I am astonished that it took so many readings and a focus on the question of using gender-inclusive language in the simplified version to discover something that should have been […]
[…] the church) speaks for the Lord in every aspect of life, spiritual and temporal, including civic matters, politics, and economics, and is the only one who does so. The living prophet takes precedence over […]
[…] take all of these contexts seriously when I read his story. Mortensen, and assumably Kirn, take a stock line—”He saved our souls forever”—and render it ambiguous. Mortensen says, in her electronic posting, that even […]
[…] void in the often insular field of Mormon history by illuminating broad connections between early Mormonism and American culture. Givens is far more interested in the portrayal of Mor monism than in traditional Mormon […]
[…] sought employment in Utah, Peacock’s memories of rejection resurfaced. She objected to an editorial in the Church News section of the Deseret News, entitled “The Place of Women,” that told of Joseph Smith’s advocacy for […]
[…] which occurred in the Relief Society in 1969-70, but others resented them. See Marilyn Warenski, Patriarchs and Politics, the Plight of the Mormon Woman, San Francisco: McGraw-Hill, 1980, p. 138-9. D. & C. Official […]