[…] heads. I found peace in the cliche that “the church organization is perfect but the leaders are human.” But my stone respect for the Church leadership had developed a hairline crack. My second struggle […]
[…] is no longer considered valid by scientists. Botanical evidence of New World contact generally concerns the supposed human introduction of the American sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), bulrush (Scirpus riparius, commonly known as totara), cotton […]
[…] remarkably complex person and in the esteem of many Mormons an almost deified one, as an all-too human human being. It demythologized the beginnings and early history of the Church to the point of […]
[…] strict toughness and his impatience with weakness and disloyalty . . . never lost the humility and human flexibility he gained there.” By consistently playing up Brigham Young’s humanity, Eugene England helps us to […]
[…] century Mormonism and presents a model of transformation to explain the differences. His project is thus similar in design to much of the literature written on Mormon history over the last thirty years, and much […]
[…] New Wave or bright or broad or wild, please!) At this late point in the development of human thought, does one really need scriptural precedents for being creative, for being oneself, for adding to […]
[…] welcomed Mormonism as their own kind of godsend: a combination of mysterious doctrines, incredible iniquities, and pathetic human interest that perfectly answered the tastes of millions of nineteenth-century Americans, mostly female, who loved nothing […]
My earliest memory of my Bluebird class in Primary is cross-stitching a sampler: “I will light up my home.” Our teacher admonished us to embroider carefully because we would want our samplers to hang in…
[…] their own extreme reaction deny. Both sets of needs are essential to women and to the evolving human condition.” I for one am weary of the strife and the exaggerated promises on all sides […]
[…] understood his counsel. A society that encourages abortions does tend to lose sight of the value of human life and does begin to feel less responsibility for the conceiving and the bearing of children. […]