Like the Rose
April 2, 2018[…] like the elders did. A few days after our baptism, Allen and Johnson came by with the news that they had rented a house where they could live and hold meetings. Mother asked them […]
[…] like the elders did. A few days after our baptism, Allen and Johnson came by with the news that they had rented a house where they could live and hold meetings. Mother asked them […]
[…] (June 1994): 8-9. On this, see Hyrum M. Smith, Doctrine and Covenants Commentary (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1941), 1002-1003. Orson Whitney expected that “the future will be an open vision,… the past, […]
[…] experience it externally, but it lives within me, nesting among the contours of my soul. Not only am I an anthropologist, but I am also the son of a Mormon sociologist and a Mormon […]
[…] his gift to his followers (see, e.g., Edward Stevenson to the Editor, 30 Nov. 1881, Deseret Evening News 15 ). Shipps, “Prophet Puzzle,” 19. That Smith’s mission of saving souls went beyond the usual […]
[…] we tried so carefully to produce and have realized that in large measure he was right. I am proud of what we have done, although our choices have sometimes met with criticism. We have […]
[…] began to treat my own illness, something I had neglected for several years—clinical depression, a condition I am still treating today. Steven stopped to take the cigarette from his mouth and remembered the voice […]
[…] vision for criticism, but one to which I have been witness, one for which—according to the paradigm—I am constrained to bear testimony. Richard Cracroft exemplified such a Mormon criticism in his review of the […]
[…] the same time, marriages have become much less stable so that adults are spending more time single after marriage, and children are more likely to live at least part of their lives with a single parent.
[…] the family. First there was the exaltation of celibacy and sexual asceticism above marriage (Matt. 19:12), which today is especially found in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions. The exclusively male leaders of both […]
[…] Stockholm, I asked the proprietor whether he had any materials about Mormons. He brought out a small and likely unique (3 1/2″ x 5 1/2″) 39-page pamphlet titled, “Om Mormonerne” (About the Mormons), by […]