[…] his own translation to linguists to identify a translation equivalency from the characters to English. By looking for someone to “git them translated,” Joseph opened himself up to an academic translation of the gold […]
[…] themselves of racist thought by the 1960s, and some of these denominations even placed themselves at the forefront of the civil rights movement. Other alternative Christian movements that arose in a similar fashion to […]
[…] property. But the experience of women as women, their wilderness crescent, is unshared with men—utterly other—and there fore to men, unnatural. In the words of Ursula K. Le Guin: This is what civilization has […]
[…] in March 1935, Orlean Kingston documented her rigorous fasts and visionary experiences that revealed the proper diet for the kingdom of God. In her first entry on the subject, she wrote, “We fasted every […]
[…] teach the stories about Lot found in Genesis 19. The teacher confessed that he was very uncom fortable discussing these narratives. Instead, he chose to review several recent General Conference addresses. Not long after, […]
[…] do not agree with the details of Joseph’s official 1838 version. While reference to his sinfulness and forgive ness is markedly absent from the first vision portion of this official version, Smith’s acknowledgment of […]
In 2008, I turned forty-five, Wall Street collapsed, California voters banned gay marriage, and I lost my virginity. The financial system’s meltdown changed the air I breathed, in the same way fire distributes ash […]
[…] an ideal of cosmic as well as human collaboration. His personal mode of leadership increasingly shifted from autocratic to collaborative—and that mode infused both his most radical theologizing and his hopes for Church comity itself.
[…] food historian Kate Holbrook gives us a peek at “My Emergency Shelf.” And right in time for Memorial Day comes David Howlett’s look at “A Mormon Massacre Site and Places within a […]
[…] Dialogue so special over the past fifty years. While all those people would no doubt generously forgive our debts to them in the spirit of the Jubilee, it seems to me that the […]