[…] a queer son. I am also an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints as well as a professor at Brigham Young University, where I teach courses in literacy […]
[…] 2016): 1–24</i><br> The November 2015 LDS handbook policy change that identified mem- bers who participate in same -sex marriages as “apostates” and forbade children in their households from receiving baby blessings or baptisms sparked […]
[…] to Joseph Smith or available only if he were capable of the most recondite research and near -genius ability in comparative literature and ancient studies. It is my purpose to demonstrate that both extremes […]
[…] gain your eternal exaltation in spite of earth and hell. Brigham Young (JD 2:31) For faithful Latter -day Saints, the temple endowment ceremony is one of the most sacred and powerful ordinances received in […]
[…] Joanna Brooks. She helps us understand the emergence of a viable Mormon presidential candidate as a “white -knuckle” moment — a moment of self–searching. From an unorthodox perspective, she sheds a candid, genuinely informative […]
In October of 1993 Dallin H. Oaks, an apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -Day Saints, and Steve Benson, editorial cartoonist for the Arizona Republic and eldest grandson of former LDS […]
[…] near Washington, D.C. As the Washington team’s numbers began to dwindle toward the end of its six -year tenure, those who remained looked westward for a group to replace them. That Dialogue would eventually […]
[…] There are two places, however, where the JST makes a surprising break from its pattern of non -contact with the ancient evidence: Matthew 5:22 and Isaiah 2:16. Interestingly, both verses were incorporated into the […]
[…] has a key, as though he had not, and had to cut it open with his jack -knife.” Smith went on to explain that the “key” to which his statement alluded was temple building: […]
[…] These articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same -sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if same–sex marriage were an option.