<i>Dialogue 12.2 (Summer 1979): 37–50</i><br>In recent years many RLDS Church members have been proud of the fact that the church has been ordaining blacks into the priesthood since early in its history. Sometimes they […]
[…] some fifty persons who were medically resuscitated, who came near death, or who observed a near death, in order to give a composite description of the experience immediately after dying. Life after life includes a […]
[…] there are any that believe that roots and herbs administered to the sick . . . in order that they may receive health, and this applied by any member of the church, if there […]
[…] much interest has been shown. Let us ask our Heavenly Father to grant our petition and permit this great neighbor, China, to join the great family of nations now bowing to the Lord Jesus Christ.
[…] converts, recruited by a veritable army of full- and part-time missionaries. As of 1979, the Church numbered over 4.2 million. At a 6.4 percent annual growth rate, it will double every eleven years or so.
What do the phrases “Mormon novel” and “Mormon novelist” mean? Maybe in the first place we are incautious not to separate novel from novelist. Suppose a “Mormon novelist” in a quite strenuous sense: nominally […]
[…] Dr. Poll’s article. I was fortunate to have a (comparatively) liberal bishop who assured us that in order to function within the church we had to believe only three things: (1) the First Vision; […]
[…] for being creative, for being oneself, for adding to the Creation, as Debra Sowell does here in order to dance well or Reid Nibley does here in order to play piano well or Ruth […]
<i>Dialogue 14.3 (Fall 1981): 89–100</i><br> Joseph Smith’s 1838 account of the First Vision has taken priority in structuring Mormon identity, despite the existence of different versions. This article explores why that version is so […]
[…] the importance of the family and by seeming to embrace lesbianism, abortion and rebellion against the patriarchal order, have polarized women into positions more extreme than they really feel. Even Betty Friedan now agrees. […]