Bodies, Babies, and Birth Control
March 26, 2018[…] in the next life warning that “those who attempt to prevent their offspring from coming into the world in obedience to this great command, are guilty of one of the most heinous crimes in […]
[…] in the next life warning that “those who attempt to prevent their offspring from coming into the world in obedience to this great command, are guilty of one of the most heinous crimes in […]
[…] nonconformists in England had been perse cuted. When asked if religion could ever be a justification for breaking a criminal law, Taylor replied that it could in a country that had a constitutional guarantee […]
[…] that those social restraints were powerful and punishing in their censure. On 21 May 1887, the Deseret News contains a brief notice of a trial for adultery of a married man and an unmarried […]
[…] with Mennonites in Amsterdam in the early 1600s. From this congregation came Thomas Helwys, founder of the English Baptists, and John Robinson of Mayflower fame. Quakers—who could be described as Anabaptists of the heart […]
[…] a century. Mormons usually considered that all Indians were Lamanites and that the “antiquities” of the New World were products of the Nephites, Lamanites, and Jaredites. As for the biblical area, that was of […]
[…] and variety of the critical literature devoted to him — since 1960 ten books have appeared in English on his thought — and by the fact that his books have sold, in English alone, […]
[…] That arch-villain Brigham Young, they would say, foisted the image of a temporal-minded Joseph Smith upon the world. Brigham put into the mouth of a Joseph unavailable to defend himself doctrines which the Utah […]
[…] the Tuscan leather sectional and the hand-knotted rugs; potted palms in the corners of the room and English ivy draping the built-in mahogany bookcases. I wanted my father to see all of it. I […]
[…] what they’re whispering about. I see it on Facebook and Twitter. I read it in the email newsletters that fill up my Gmail account. I see it on everyone’s faces. Even on the faces […]
[…] inevitable roar between two headlights on a dark road. But half a dozen strategies erased that picture, breaking the paralysis. He pictured himself with an ear to the receiver and an eye out the […]