[…] translated) as a reward for exemplary faithfulness. For early Mormons, Elijah shouldered a burdensome mission: to oversee LDS temple rites and integrate the human family into an organic whole, sealing up personal relationships against death.
[…] thousand years. The eruptions and deluges of the Northwest plateaus are mighty brooms that sweep clean any human dust, but here she was, after all these years, my great find. The field work has […]
Dialogue 40.1 (Spring 2007): 83–136
Watson explains how the secret marriage of Louis J. Barlow to a 15-year-old girl caused a major rift among fundamentalists. Today’s fundamentalist members are still experiencing the effects of that marriage.
[…] conscious decision to be candid. Mormons technically don’t believe in infallibility, but by insisting on perfection in human leaders, Church members have created a virtually impossible image of their prophets. Curiously, the efforts to […]
[…] Mormon point of view, such a step is theologically consistent because Hitler was, despite his atrocities, a human being like everyone else. Others have been shocked that Mormons consider such a person worthy of […]
[…] that God is infallible, so the objection goes, Church doctrine is always and necessarily mediated through fallible human beings. Given its fallibility, Church doctrine cannot operate as an authority. The argument for the fallibility […]
[…] written a Gospel. The story gave the delight of reading Twain, but more so—like the delight of human love, but different. We do not normally think of God as tickling us until we break […]
[…] killed hundreds of soldiers. There were scenes of bodies and burnt-out vehicles. One, eerily, showed a charred human carcass, helmet still in place, hanging from a window strut of an incinerated bus. They said […]
[…] congregations “to help the Cause.”“Nothing is better calculated to impress a man with the great drama of human existence,” he believed, “than seeing for himself the varying conditions of the world’s people—how they make […]