[…] tinderbox. Every year it happens somewhere in the West: wildfire, destroyer of the status quo. Forest, meadow, human flesh, animal flesh, cabin, million-dollar home—it doesn’t matter. Property rights go up in firestorms, resorts and […]
The modern Fundamentalist Mormon community consists of a number of groups and many independent family clusters. The two largest are the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) centered in Colorado City, Arizona,…
[…] as well to a subgroup of related themes, including the hero-journey, metanoia (or repentance), the temple, and human community. As Keele points out in his foreword, Germans have a particularly resonant history with these […]
[…] a sensitive understanding of people. Fundamen tally, he was the cock-eyed optimist, with a profound belief in human decency and the ultimate triumph of justice. I remember his telling me about the day in […]
[…] in it are often powerful in their statements and in their contradictions. In them we find the human questions—that is, the religious questions, which are the ones worth wrestling about. It is here also […]
[…] so sweeping a definition that it seems eventually unworkable: “Pornography is any material depicting or describing the human body or sexual conduct in a way that arouses sexual feelings” (117). Does this mean that […]
[…] much about the group’s perspective. To emphasize the life of Jesus is to embrace an entity fully human who had to come to grips with the duality of his humanity and divinity and did […]
[…] pagans to the Mormon aversion to wine in the Lord’s supper, to Book of Mormon preaching on human agency, to our near-compulsive record-keeping, we as a people worry about the influence and implication of […]
[…] General Motors transferred me from New York to Detroit in 1972,I switched career fields from finance to human resources, and in 1982I became a GM corporate vice president—a sort of managerial dean and advocate […]
[…] goal. Still, Church progressives emphasized the need to make Zion present through social justice advocacy and “participatory human development projects” in all the world. Progressives, then, spiritualized the millennialist Zion while still affirming a […]