[…] generation, the first generation formed by the twentieth century. Its members grew up when regional isolation was breaking down and rural Mormondom was experiencing widespread depopulation. Consequently it is not surprising that many of […]
[…] scriptures include those of Abraham from Ur to Canaan, the Jaredites from the tower to the New World and Lehi and his family from Jerusalem to the Americas. Perhaps the most relevant similar experience […]
[…] thee. Go thy way, walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments. . . . Behold, the world . . . have turned aside from the Gosoel and keep not my commandments. They draw […]
[…] in a state of “‘permanent revolution’ or metanoia which does not come to an end in this world, this life, or this time,” then a member of the Mormon Church is guaranteed that right—or […]
[…] the circle of home, neighbors, and ward rather than reaching out to the wider community or the world. But one decade was different, infused by an unusual degree of organized activism against poverty and […]
[…] The Twelve Apostles and Counselors to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in all the World,” Woman’s Exponent 6 (1 Oct. 1877) : 65. The movement is described in detail by William […]
[…] Turner, they are to be handed over to the father for education and guidance “pertaining to the world beyond the hearth.” Current research indicates that a man who is “clumsy” with his young children, […]
The captivity narrative is one of the oldest literary genres of the New World: some 1,000 examples survive from the sixteenth century. It is also one of the earliest forms of popular literature in […]
[…] themselves—which they could easily do either through marking their own skin or by intermarrying with darker New World people around them. There is no need for a genetically inherited curse from God to explain […]
[…] language itself requires us to speak of God in the present tense and in our commonly shared world. This dualism concerning God creates a special problem for the prophet. It calls her to walk […]