Mormon Women in the Ministry
April 28, 2020[…] I have a seeking, hopeful heart. I find joy in asking questions about the nature of life, humanity, and divinity, and I marvel at the many ways that people have explored these questions over […]
[…] I have a seeking, hopeful heart. I find joy in asking questions about the nature of life, humanity, and divinity, and I marvel at the many ways that people have explored these questions over […]
[…] done on less than solid ground, regardless of our sympathies. The Book of Mormon is pessimistic about human nature (Lindgren 1983). According to Book of Mormon teachings, we are not on a progressive journey […]
[…] land is home, the country where my heart is: A land of hopes, of dreams, of grand design; But other hearts in other lands are beating With hopes and dreams as true and high […]
[…] women to the priesthood. At the same time, we see a fair amount of candor about certain human shortcomings associated with conferences, especially considering that this book was ultimately reviewed by the First Presidency […]
[…] broader historical study; it is at best only a specialty describing a minuscule part of the overall human experience. Our treating it otherwise is a form of Mormon imperialism, and it is time to […]
Hurtling out of the sky in a tight corkscrew spiral—the so-called “Mogadishu Landing”—our U.N. Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) C-130 cargo plane bumped unceremoniously onto the runway of “Hawler International Airport,” consisting of an airstrip, […]
[…] the clerks wake up, a furious clatter of drays follows, every house and store pours out a human contribution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive and moving. . . . […]
[…] of the other person was beside the point. Understanding and rapport were not the goals of the human encounter. Conversion was. This description is surely a caricature of many dedicated Mormons, but it does, […]
[…] prompt them to infringe upon the rights and liberties of others; but we do not believe that human law has a right to interfere in prescribing rules of worship to bind the consciences of […]
[…] topics dealt with are those of vital concern to modern biology (e.g., organic evolution, man’s physical nature, human nutrition and metabolism, extraterrestrial life, etc.). It is significant, then, that a devout Latter-day Saint who […]