Groping the Mormon Eros
April 17, 2018[…] as ingesting botulism toxin from a can of vegetables or catching a cold by a kiss or breaking skin on sharp glass. Each of these events begins a biochemical or physiological process that, unless […]
[…] as ingesting botulism toxin from a can of vegetables or catching a cold by a kiss or breaking skin on sharp glass. Each of these events begins a biochemical or physiological process that, unless […]
[…] In 1955 the Mauss family returned to California, where Armand began teaching high school social studies and English while earning an M.A. in History, Asian Studies, and Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. […]
[…] 82–83; see also Gyatso, Apparitions of Self, 173, 194–97). Elsewhere, Gyatso explains this as facilitating the “ breaking of codes (brda grol), here a metaphor for the loosening of the psychic knots that bind […]
[…] over the intercom to the mounted TV monitors where men in suits and ties reported the latest breaking news. Mark followed the bilingual signs (Puerta/Gate. Salidas/Departures) past the concessions—Burger King, souvenir shops, sports bars—down […]
[…] education, yet at Provo, home of Brigham Young University and intellectual center of Mormondom, there is no newsstand in town except for the miscellaneous racks at the supermarkets designed to entertain small-fry while mama […]
[…] made a corollary of the gospel. What irony! The gospel is not just another ideology. The good news about Jesus Christ is an affront to all ideologies; it challenges all the presumptions we label […]
[…] a new country and expend the energy necessary to establish themselves socially, economically, spiritually, and linguistically. Upon breaking many of the barriers necessary for such establishments, they are then able to facilitate the arrival […]
[…] occurring in the RLDS Church indicate that the Church as represented by that institution is in apostasy.” Breaking with the lineage tradition for the Church president, which occurred in 1996 when W. Grant McMurray […]
[…] American Cyclopedia, which informed its readership that “as early as 1813 this work was announced in the newspapers as forthcoming, and as containing a translation of the ‘Book of Mormon.’” Another example of the […]
[…] on the face of it, was calculated to be unifying and to bring people together around a shared principle. So you had both things going on there emotionally. I think there was no expectation […]