[…] dictators. They frequently insisted that lesson manuals should be followed verbatim, and the Primary, Sunday School, and Mutual curriculum years began in September because that is when the American academic year began. Consequently, our […]
[…] and to ignore the destruction, death, and human misery wrought by our actions. The nation cheered at videos of bombs destroying buildings, bridges, factories, and power stations. The bombing of a shelter, which killed […]
[…] members who no longer “gather unto Zion” in America. How can the Church bureaucracy possibly communicate Church news and doctrinal discussions on an international scale? The Church’s response to these problems has been impressive. […]
For some time now, especially since World War II and the shock and guilt evoked in the Western world by the virtual extermination of the European Jews, traditional Christian views of the role of […]
[…] politician visits Salt Lake City or the Polynesian Cultural Center, these stories invariably appear in the Church News. When I was at BYU, a favorite story was about the Pope’s nephew joining the Church and […]
[…] a great hatred for these outsiders and their church. After getting married and entering the white man’s world to earn a living, my wife, Theresa, and I had occasional visits from the Mormons. They […]
[…] of Brigham Young University, campaign politics was a game he could never master. From his rowdy youth in Ogden, Utah’s notorious Hell’s Half-Acre district, where blind eyes turned to cock-fighting and bootlegging, he had […]
[…] into patriarchal and colonial patterns, but we never give up. As long as we as feminists maintain mutual respect for religion as we’ve done fairly successfully (though not without a struggle) with sexual preference, […]
[…] non-governmental agencies have shown that three out of every four male high school students have seen pornographic videos, and that one out of every seven high school students has had sexual intercourse (Asahi Shimbun, […]
[…] in which the fatted calf is eaten. This is another detail with ritual resonance in the ancient world, for eating meat was a much rarer event in antiquity than it is today; often it […]