[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, and Hildale, Utah, and the Apostolic United Brethren (AUB), […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Z (“Zion”): 190 pages of what Mormons are supposed to believe, know, and do. Arguably, in creed -free and catechism–free Mormonism, the appearance of this concise compendium represents a new development. Its closest parallels […]
<i>Dialogue 39.4 (Winter 2006): 58–67</i><br> I spoke as a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints/Community of Christ. As a result, I had a decidedly different perspective on Joseph Smith […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] so through the story of my own research and conclusions about the war over the past half -century—one–third of the period since President James Buchanan and Governor Brigham Young came into armed conflict during […]
[…] 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 […]