[…] politics. Brooks is also a scholar who also blogs at Religion Dispatches and Ask Mormon Girl, an online community of questioning for Mormons of many stripes. One of the most prominent recurring themes on […]
[…] in calculating who that might be. It wasn’t always necessarily thought to be the eldest son. But over the years, between the death of Joseph in 1844 and the formal organization of the Church […]
We often hear the phrase, “The Church is the same all over the world.” While a mutual commitment to the gospel provides a feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood that transcends many cultural barriers, I […]
[…] between two positions. First is the commitment to the Pauline ecumenical vision of one God who is over, through, and in all, with one faith, one baptism, and one body (Eph. 4:4-6). In light […]
[…] announced the Church’s decision to abandon Nauvoo, and the Saints were now hurriedly preparing for a massive over land trek to the West. As a destination, Brigham Young was considering upper California, at that […]
[…] of the best known supernatural-narrative cycles in the United States—the legend of the Three Nephites. And for over three decades it remained the only reference. Then in 1938, in a short article entitled “The […]
[…] money himself. I hope so. I really wish I knew that he did. I began to understand over the next ten months how naive I was to believe my church could relieve the poor […]
[…] arbitrary, then words no longer have magical power, for they no longer directly relate to the thing over which they are supposed to exert power. For most of the eighteenth century this sense for […]
[…] than they”) referred to an explicit hierarchy of spiritual talent in pre mortal life, one which carried over neatly into the mortal sphere. Full recognition and the highest responsibilities fell to those born under […]
[…] language, these factors include the 1867 publication of Joseph Smith’s biblical revision, the nineteenth-century Protestant Catholic conflict over governmental authorization of a single version for use in American public schools, the menace of higher […]