The Church as Media Proprietor
April 25, 2018[…] our century make it possible for the LDS Church to reach a wide audience indeed, even a worldwide one, and the revolution in delivery systems is still in its infancy. It is sometimes suggested […]
[…] our century make it possible for the LDS Church to reach a wide audience indeed, even a worldwide one, and the revolution in delivery systems is still in its infancy. It is sometimes suggested […]
[…] “a flea to the size of a horse.” Bentham Fabian’s unsuccessful lecture, “The Past History of the World,” combined geology, Biblical fundamentalism, and bloody sacrifices. “Had it been delivered before the Japanese Embassy, as […]
[…] by Brigham Young: There are sins that men commit for which they cannot receive forgiveness in this world, or in that which is to come, and if they had their eyes open to see […]
Dialogue 12.2 (Summer 1979): 37–50
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 […]
[…] envisions eternal rest. The meek will at last inherit an earth, and the powerful look for new worlds to conquer. Justice will come to the oppressed. Women hope and fear to discover their Heavenly […]
[…] some radical ideas, such as: (1) matter and spirit can be neither created nor annihilated, (2) the world was not created ex nihilo, but organized out of existing matter, and (3) God is bound […]
[…] lifestyles exist. What, then, produces the frequently expressed feeling that as Mormons we are part of a world-wide family whose members be long wherever they might be? Does that comfortable sense of belonging arise […]
[…] phrase, “Without the new, the being of everything is nothing.” It was precisely because Jesus made the world new with every word and every act that Christianity offers such hope. The genius and inspiration […]
[…] that run throughout it: the impetus of desire for human connection and for joining two seemingly disparate worlds. In this aforementioned image, she places God in that space of desire, a lovely reversal and […]
[…] 1990s were halcyon years for Mormons and Mormonism. The Church was the “fastest growing religion in the world”—at least, that’s what we told ourselves, aided by sociologist Rodney Stark’s grandiose projections. Anything that happened […]