[…] 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 […]
[…] Calvinism. It affirmed the doctrines of predestination and human depravity but not of limited atonement and perseverance. English Calvinists, the “low” church or Puritans, opposed the Articles and produced the Westminster Confession (1643) that […]
[…] Native Americans was central to their decision to change their life and accept baptism.” As a white, English-speaking, North American Mormon, Bailey is most likely telling the truth. For him, and those around him, […]
[…] return? “I don’t get this reading. It makes my head hurt. Why can’t they write In simple English So everyone can understand! “I am a simple person. I do not plan to think Complex […]
[…] a warm winter. No one at Thiokol noticed that sometimes, on my breaks, I cried over the news, over the workload, over my books. What my father noticed was that no matter how early […]
[…] opinion, it also contained language quoted directly from the Church’s in-house position statement. 2. A 1975 Church News editorial published at the beginning of Utah’s legislative session, “the first in a series of statements […]
[…] movie was about to be released, Church Public Communications issued a press release, resulting in the following news item: LDS doctrine does not endorse claims made in a popular book and movie that Jesus […]
[…] of appointments and visitors” (xv). Ed’s own background research included scanning the entire run of the Church News, Ensign, Conference Reports, and Deseret News Church Almanac for 1974–85. The book is organized thematically rather […]
[…] At night I wrote letters to my congressman, to old flings. I wrote Mr. Goodman, my senior English teacher, asking how classes were going and could he send me some poems to read? From […]
I I often went with my father on home teaching visits when I was ten and eleven. I don’t remember why his companions were never around. I suppose they were inactive. Back then, inactivity wasn’t…