[…] atmosphere of criticism, one might yet find acceptance from God’s leader(s) and congregation through obedience. Bending or breaking away from religion creates conflict, for one not only leaves the continued experience of symbolic parental love, […]
[…] USA Inc., 1984); Banished Knowledge (New York: Doubleday, 1990); The Untouched Key (New York: Doubleday, 1990); and Breaking Down the Wall of Silence (New York: Penguin Books USA Inc., 1991). See also J. Konrad […]
[…] cadaver testified of human mortality, to the time when we too would rot, our complex organic molecules breaking down to more basic constituents. Through the experience of cutting apart another human being, I concluded […]
[…] of the Salt Lake temple constituted one of the most important events in the history of the world. Due to the sacred nature of temple dedications, the church does not grant access to the […]
[…] a Mormon (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987), 240-41; and William Clayton’s Journal (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1921), 83, 91,136-137,143,149. Poulsen, The Landscape, 109; Richard H. Jackson, “Righteous and Environmental Change: The Mormons […]
[…] the Scientific Study of Religion 38, no. 1 (1999): 59-71. Church Almanac 1999-2000 (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1998), 544, 547-549. See Henri Gooren (‘Analyzing LDS Growth in Guatemala: Report from a Barrio,” Dialogue: […]
[…] I pull out my blue leather scriptures. On a regular day I read them in the morning, English and Korean for a half-hour each. On days like today, I only read them in English […]
[…] the media to Short Creek just it had drawn the media to Utah in the previous century. News writers, photographers, and even one film maker flocked to the remote town in the autumn of […]
[…] nationalism and Jewish Zionism has been one of the most protracted and seemingly irreconcilable conflicts in the world. Most people have difficulties discussing this conflict in a detached or academic way because it is […]
[…] Hukilau Beach and didn’t invite Liz. I didn’t even tell her about it until it was old news, until my beautiful, azureeyed husband was terminal. Liz never met him. The week of his funeral, […]